traffic app alerts edmonton motorists to photo-radar locations - portable document camera

Let your smartphone guide you through photosradar traps.
Katla lab in Toronto
Headquartered in startups, is uploading weekly locations from Edmonton to its free dashboard
Cam and navigation app Sidekick, let drivers know when they are close to the photo radar.
Katla Labs CEO Billy Lo said on Thursday: "What my app has been doing is providing drivers with proactive reminders so they have more time to react to what's happening on the road
Lo puts open data portals from different cities into use.
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The radar position changes every week and he has written a program to extract the information from the portable document format (PDF)
City published files and geocode the corner on the map of the app.
When the driver is close to the location, they will be told there may be photos nearby
Radar equipment, similar to the popular driving application Waze.
Everything is hands
Free, safe design for drivers.
"Most of the features are actually running in the background," Lo said . ".
"One thing I noticed is (
Other driving applications)
Must be restarted, sometimes you can't . . . . . . But if something bad happens in front of you, you still want to be reminded.
"Partners don't need to restart.
It wakes up when it detects you're driving, and it pauses when you walk.
Nevertheless, the current process of putting a location into the application is a workaround, which is the result of the city posting information in a PDF file.
This is expected to change.
Gary Dyck, a traffic safety spokesman for the city, said that in order to get information quickly online, the city uploaded information that they could use as a first step.
It is planned to provide location in a more useful format through an open data portal sometime in August.
Getting information in a more useful format means more people will use it, DYK said, but he pointed out, "the best option is always to look at your speedometer and go to the speed limit, you can't get the ticket.
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Lo said radar alerts are expected to be ready for Mac iOS next week.
He hasn't developed a version for Google Android yet, but he said he would add if the Edmund had enough demand.
He is looking for feedback from the edmunnia.
Because he lives in Toronto, he cannot personally test how accurate these locations are.
"I applaud the Edmonton government for doing this simply because the whole goal is to keep roads safe, not to issue more tickets to people," Lo said . ".
"In fact, the location they posted will really achieve this.