Tripmate WS 1.0


Category: Navigation
Price: $2.99 (iTunes)

Description:

Tripmate is an advanced traffic visualization application specifically designed for the iPhone and iPod Touch.

It works by downloading up-to-the minute traffic data from the Washington State Department Of Traffic (WSDOT) server and present them in a nice, easy to use and meaningful interface.

A number of options, explained below, allow for complete personalization of the behavior and of the information presented.

The map is completely vector and can be enlarged/shrinked without loosing definition, it is completely self contained and don't require to be re-dowloaded all the time. The road is divided into segments of approximately 1 mile and for each road segment the application is capable of visualizing:

- Name of sensing station
- Location
- Volume of vehicles passed per minute / per hour
- Number of lanes
- Percentage of occupancy
- Calculated speed

An easy to read color coded system, allows to quickly understand if the road ahead is going to be busy when you plan to hit the road. A simple button tap allows to switch the map visualization between Flow (Congestion), Speed and Volume.

Tripmate also show the directions allowed and the status of the Interstate 5 and 90 as well has all the messages reported by the WSDOT. An optional sound is played when new messages are received or the ones already displayed have changed.

Tripmate can refresh traffic data automatically by setting the interval between data retrieval between 1 and 10 Minutes; it is also possible to refresh manually by either button press or by shaking the device


Until the 20th of July 2009 at a special introductory price!


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TRAFFIC COVERAGE
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This application reports traffic conditions only on the areas served by the Washington State Department Of Traffic with the exclusion of the Tacoma area which is planned in the next release.
Tripmate WS



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