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Jan. 22, 2007 at 1:18pm Eastern by Chris Sherman
PublicRoutes.com Adds Languages, Personalization
PublicRoutes.com, a service that helps you find directions from any point in several U.S. cities by subway, walking, driving or taking the bus, has added a translation feature that offers directions in 14 languages, and a feature called MyPublicRoutes, a personalization feature that remembers specific locations entered by users.
PublicRoutes.com is available for New York, New Jersey, Chicago, Connecticut, Philadelphia and Texas. Available languages include English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Greek, Swedish, Chinese (Traditional and Simplified), Japanese, Korean and Russian. The company says that the addition of languages lays the groundwork for international expansion.
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Just in, we learned today that real-time traffic reports delivered via RSS are now available via The Highways Agency.
http://www.kablenet.com/kd.nsf/Frontpage/085666F4DEB15FD980257268005FA180?OpenDocument
Also, Windows Media and MP3 feeds with audio traffic are also available, 5 minute reports continuously-updated.
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Another service that's excellent for public transport info is i-Metro. About 200 cities available. 9 languages.
http://imetro.nanika.net/metro?o=h
The database can also be downloaded for offline use. See:
http://metro.nanika.net/index-en.html
Also, Traffic.com
http://www.traffic.com now also offers a mobile version
http://mobi.traffic.com
and allows you to create personalized routes. Updates can be delivered via RSS, SMS, e-mail.
Traffic.com also offers a service that you can call for spoken traffic alerts. The service can also call you (at a specified #) with the latest traffic info.