AAS Contributor and Python Advocate Jim Hughes has thrown together London Traffic Camera, a Series 60 Python applciation that will download images of the various BBC traffic cameras direct to your Python powered handest. Is it a finished app? No, but as a proof of concept, and a working tool, it does the business. And that's what promgramming should be all about.
London Traffic - Python Style
I think that this is a brilliant idea and it really shows the power of the platform and the scripting. Being as dull as three week old cheescake, I just created myself a simple HTML page here but I'd love to be able to do it preoperly like this chap!
and now you can.. you just need to write your own configuration file (I think), please pop into #mobitopia on freenode for more help.
Rafe wrote:and now you can.. you just need to write your own configuration file (I think), please pop into #mobitopia on freenode for more help.
Indeed you can, details are on Chris Schmidt's blog or Matt Croydon's wiki.
There's already many cities around the world covered by the app, which now far supasses my quick hack of an early version of Chris's original.