We’ve had the Louisville traffic cameras available on this site for several years now – we even created a mobile-web-friendly version of the Trimarc camera links that inspired Trimarc to (officially) do the same!

Today’s free Android app of the day over at Amazon is Beat the Traffic, and it combines the traffic cams with live speed data and incident reports, giving real-time traffic conditions, and it’s pretty slick!  It even does forecasts of the traffic.

The app also shows Planned Events that could impact traffic, though the one event currently showing for the Louisville map is slightly inaccurate – currently, the map shows an indicator for the U of L football game over at Papa John’s that is scheduled for tonight (9/1, 6pm) and while the description is correct, the DATE field says 8/31.   Still, stuff like that has potential.

There’s a button for users to report accidents, construction and other road hazards (kind of like Waze, but not really).  I could see the user input increasing the usefulness of this over time.

Definitely worth getting, especially today!  :)

 

Tags: Android, app, cameras, traffic

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