How to create a personalized traffic system

jedro — Fri, 22 Apr 2005 02:35:00 GMT

I commute between Seattle and Redmond every work day. It takes anywhere from 17 minutes to 45 minutes to get home depending on the condition of traffic, so I used to check our local traffic site regularly to determine the best way and time to head home.

It became repititious to go to the Seattle traffic Web page and click on all of those traffic cams. I discovered a great solution to quickly assess the traffic situation and in near real-time.

Here's what you need:

URL for local traffic map (like this one)
URL for local traffic cameras (like this one)
Konfabulator for Windows
Web Images widget for Konfabulator

Load up your Web Images widget with the URLs for the traffic image and traffic camera, set them all on for Konspose mode only, and position the traffic cameras around the traffic map.

Press F8 and you can get a near real-time snapshot of local traffic without having to load up the browser and it just fades in over your desktop-

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How to create a personalized traffic system