TrafficEye: Realtime UK Traffic and Accident Map

Today I stumbled upon TrafficEye.co.uk.

It gives you, via Microsoft’s excellent Virtual Earth, a real time map of traffic congestion, roadworks and other key incidents. I'd previously mentioned how I prefer Virtual Earth over Google Earth - it's the bird's eye view maps that do it!

Back on topic: TrafficEye lets me know, for example, that the traffic lights are out on Blackpool’s Central Drive and traffic is reduced to one lane and it also tells me there appears to be traffic issues due to a suspected accident on the M6 (surprise surprise).

The data is coming direct from TrafficLink who are the UK’s leading provider of real-time traffic and travel information.

I think it’s very well implemented, better so than the Google Earth ‘version’ that was announced earlier this week.

Vecosys have mentioned that there are plans for it to evolve into a mobile application and the next version will contain real-time weather reports. TrafficEye is certainly something I'll be keeping MY eye on

Related: Live Birds Eye View Maps

Tags: maps, virtual_earth, trafficeye, sat_nav, tomtom, driver, car, road, accidents, google, earth, google_maps, traffic, trafficlink, mapping

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