[NEWS] Trapster traffic camera app coming to Pre

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Trapster traffic camera app coming to Pre

By Derek Kessler | Friday, Aug 14, 2009 | 30 comments »

If youre like the average American, you spend some forty minutes every day on the road. Increasingly those forty minutes are being monitored by speed cameras and red light camera, supplementing the traditional cop-on-the-side-of-the-road monitoring of traffic. While we at PreCentral dont advocate that you speed or run red lights, we know that it happens, and any warning to help you drive safely and avoid a ticket is fine by us. Enter Trapster, a database of speed traps, red light cameras, and speed cameras augmented with GPS tracking and constantly updated by people like you and me. Just last month the service exceeded one million users, thanks in part to its deployment on multiple mobile platforms. When active, Trapster monitors your position and will alert you when you approach a reported trap.
The good news: it'll be completely free. The law-abiding-yet-understanding folks behind Trapster gave us a rundown of their favorite features:

• The service is completely free to use regardless of device
• We have crowdsourced more than 500,000+ speed traps
• Trapster supports live police and checkpoint alerts (on top of alerts for all speed trap camera types)
• Majority of our users on iPhone, Nokia, BlackBerry, Android, Garmin, and TomTom
• We have the top spots in Travel on iPhone, BlackBerry, and Nokia Ovi Store and are quickly climbing on Android
• We have 1 million + members

Official availability in the App Catalog is, like all future App Catalog submissions, completely up in the air.


original blog can be found here:

http://www.precentral.net/trapster-traffic-camera-app-coming-pre