Trapster, featuring GPS (on GPS-enabled phones and devices) and live community updates, will alleviate traffic issues when the police are out in force with speed traps, random breath testing, etc.
The system works like this:
- Uses Google Maps to display 'hot' locations,
- Utilises community uploading of positions, so all reports are live,
- Features a "drive me home" utility to automatically plan your route to avoid the fuzz,
- Confirm or deny another user's upload to keep viability,
- Usable in ANY country around the world!
- Also has a "police often hide here" feature to warn of late nights when driving home, or favourite radar positions for the fuzz.
I've just downloaded it onto my Blackberry Storm and it is good stuff. It can be quite cumbersome and slow to load onto maps when scanning around a city, however it does the job very well.
The site is actually quite mobile and dynamic:
http://www.trapster.com/
I did have some issues with registration & logging in, but that all seemed to go away after half an hour or so.
NOTE: For people with Blackberries, the file type is a .jad, so you will need to download direct from your Blackberry browser at
www.trapser.com