TMC - Traffic messaging in Maemo Mapper
 

What are the chanses that we can get support for the TMC service to provide traffic messages in Maemo Mapper? Since we do have a FM (RDS) receiver internally in the N800 the prerequisites should be there, no? Is there a license issue related to this type of broadcasts?

My main problem is to decide whether to go for a fixed mounted GPS with "full monty" or to go the budget way with a bluetooth GPS receiver along with the internet tablet. I´d really want the traffic messages... (Is there a thing like a bluetooth GPS receiver with TMC support)

Re: TMC - Traffic messaging in Maemo Mapper
 

I don't know anything about TMC, but if an interested party wants to try hacking support for it into Maemo Mapper, I'd be willing to accept patches, assuming they don't require inordinate dependencies. Considering the FM demodulation required, it might not be appropriate to put in Maemo Mapper itself, but perhaps a separate application could be written and used to provide the data to Maemo Mapper.

Re: TMC - Traffic messaging in Maemo Mapper
 

Does the N800 actually support RDS? From what I saw reading the technical specs. on the chip used in the N800 it was just an FM receiver only, I didn't seen anything about RDS.

Re: TMC - Traffic messaging in Maemo Mapper
 

I'd agree that the chip only supports FM, not FM+RDS.

I wonder whether it's actually possible (with the right kind of FM receiver) to grab these signals and use them? Are the location tables available anywhere? (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_Message_Channel).


Si

Re: TMC - Traffic messaging in Maemo Mapper
 

I realize this thread was started more along the lines of pushing for a "messaging" feature of traffic conditions but I just got my Cingular Samsung Blackjack 3 days ago and I noticed the google app on my Blackjack will display an overlay of traffic conditions. Is it possible to integrate this feature into the present Maemo Mapper? Just having a overlay of traffic conditions would be an awesome feature!

By the way, I think this would be easily supported on both N770 and N800 since it does not require the use of FM??

Re: TMC - Traffic messaging in Maemo Mapper
 

Another, neater, way to put traffic conditions on would be to use GeoRSS or geo coded RSS. For example this yahoo link http://developer.yahoo.com/traffic/rss/V1/index.html, which uses zip (UK Post) codes in the US. Another chap has done a hack on the BBC (UK) traffic RSS feed; http://www.blears.net/travel/index.php and shows the coding here http://www.blears.net/travel/code.txt.

kempja