Travel News Search
Post categories: prototypes
| 20:09 UK time, Monday, 4 June 2007
Allows searching of the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Travel News RSS feeds for certain roads (using a special way of searching to ensure you only get, for example, problems on the M5, as opposed to problems on the M6 near the junction with the M5) or certain places. Is rather crude at the moment, but works - and I use it at work before starting the journey home. As for improvements - well see the todo page on the site - but the UI could do with a lot of improvements, and a way to select which feed to search would be good.
Basically I wrote this to deal with a personal niggle (that of having to use the IE search function to search for traffic problems that might affect me) and thought others might find it useful too.
If anyone's interested, then it's written using eRuby and runs on my apache webserver, which sits in my bedroom (that's why it's slow!).
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