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Realtime Traffic Messages

Update: constantly improving the decoder …
I finally set up a small embedded linux computer (ZFx86 @ 100MHz, 32MB) with one of my mp5_redux PC104 add-on boards to receive and decode TMC (Traffic Message Channel)-messages out of RDS (Radio Data System).
The system is set up to receive SWR3 (coverage: nrw, hessen, rheinland-pfalz, saarland, baden-württemberg, bayern) and [...]


Mapping with AJAX

Yes, i can do mapping in AJAX too. Although debugging and developing is much harder with a platform to span html,  javascript and PHP.
From a functional point of view we’re right at the beginning, but will improve over time.
maps.sueddeutsche.de

And as small snippet on content pages:


GeoRSS Viewer/Reader in AIR

Just did a quick wrapper around the GeoRSS reader classes, got GeoFeeder; then simply couldn’t stop to improve it.
Try any GeoRSS feed you know of, but be aware: every feed sucessfully parsed will be “recorded” for all other users to see.
See the GeoFeeder page for details.
Please upgrade your Flash Player This is the content that [...]


RSS 1.0 + 2.0, Atom 1.0 on Yahoo – Virtual Earth – Google – OpenStreetMap …

To test the recent changes to my maptech library and to feature the omnipresent Geo-RSS feeds, i put together a simple yet powerful (at least i hope so) GeoRSS viewer.
Features

renders Atom 1.0, RSS 1.0 and RSS 2.0
supports W3C, Simple and GML feeds
implements RSS 2.0’s TTL

BTW, please add all georss-feed-urls you have and give feedbackon on [...]


2-d barcodes

When thinking of a mass-licensing mode for MaSSOnAIR i thought of a barcode (as there are webcam barcode readers for flex). Then i remembered semacode, a way to encode a url in a 2-d barcode.
When i did some research on the technique, i found that

semacode actually is a Data Matrix implementation
Data Matrix seems to be [...]