Traffic cam listings for Weather Panel?

turbo4door · #1 (**permalink**) 02-12-2007, 06:53 PM

I know in the wiki there are some radar links but I was wondering if anyone had any gif traffic cam links?

also, i doubt weatherpanel will do it, but I have found some streaming traffic cam vids (streams in win media player). I am correct in assuming WeatherPanel cannot handle those file types?

**Pibe38** · #2 (**permalink**) 02-12-2007, 07:09 PM

What WP does with images is that it bascially copies the file every so often. Then, it makes an animation out of all the images it has in it cache.

So... if WP updates the image (radar/traffic cam) every hour, for 5 hours, then you'd have images 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5. WP will take them and show them very quickly: 12345. This makes the effect of an animation. Like those comics where you would draw a stick figure on a notepad and then shuffle the pages very quickly.

Having said this, no, WP does no support streaming since it operates with images and not video files.

Also, usually traffic cams are more local so I doubt there's any listing for them out there. I'd check your local dept. of transportation webstie, or local news sites as well.

We don't even know where you are so we couldn't even start to recommend sites :P

turbo4door · #3 (**permalink**) 02-12-2007, 07:38 PM

Thats what i figured. Just wanted to be sure I wasn't missing something.

I'm actually close to you, over in Volusia County

I've got the FDOT jpg cam links so thats what I'm going to use. Thanks for the quick reply

nickm · #4 (**permalink**) 02-12-2007, 09:32 PM

just throwing this out there. The images are updated about every 20 or 30 minutes.

Houston traffic cams

http://traffic.houstontranstar.org/l....aspx?cam=True

**storyr** · #5 (**permalink**) 02-12-2007, 09:37 PM

FYI & BTW - I'm about to release a new WeatherPanel theme called Commuter-240. It's built to take advantage of WP's image grabbing capabilities - for the daily commuter... or voyeur

turbo4door · #6 (**permalink**) 02-14-2007, 10:47 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by storyr

FYI & BTW - I'm about to release a new WeatherPanel theme called Commuter-240. It's built to take advantage of WP's image grabbing capabilities - for the daily commuter... or voyeur

great!
(not really sure why i need it, there is no traffic in daytona beach except for speed weeks....but its still cool lol)

sanyo · #7 (**permalink**) 04-07-2007, 11:48 AM

san antonio?

**jamesus** · #8 (**permalink**) 04-07-2007, 01:20 PM

Simple google search produced this.

k0diak · #9 (**permalink**) 04-11-2007, 01:27 AM

Colorado Cams
http://www.dickgilbert.com/coloradocams.htm