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Ottawa Traffic Cams
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Paul Hurley
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Ottawa Traffic Cams is a Konfabulator Widget that displays the still images supplied by the Ontario Ministry of Transport (MoT) COMPAS Traffic Cameras web site for Highway 417. Highway 417, also known as The Queensway, is the main east-west traffic artery for Ottawa, Canada’s capital city. The MoT currently uses eleven cameras on Highway 417. The Ottawa Traffic Cams Widget accesses each camera in sequence from east to west.
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Version 1.12: Fixed problem where traffic image not updated when hold enabled; Added optional traffic image display in dock
Version 1.11: Updated weather retrieval methods to match recent changes to the Environment Canada web site. Added UUID for automatic Widget update support.
Version 1.10: Updates for Y!W 4 including: New dock icon, internal updates for text and fade animations.
Version 1.9: Updated weather retrieval methods to match recent changes to the Environment Canada web site.
Version 1.8: Added preferences option allowing selection of source for Ottawa weather information, either NOAA or Environment Canada. Fixed size of "about" image for Mac. Improved camera image retrieval.
Version 1.7: Added menu option to check for new Widget version. Removed caching to simplify Widget operation. Added save/restore of skipped cameras. Requires Yahoo! Widget Engine 3.1 or newer.
Version 1.6: Updated for recent format changes to Ottawa gas prices page
Version 1.5: Added Lynx Stadium camera. "Skip camera" now automatically advances to next cam. Clicking the "next" button resets timer.
Version 1.4: New user options to allow hold and skip cameras, added selectable viewing regions (East End, Central Core and West End). Numerous coding changes. Requires Konfabulator version 2.1 or newer.
Version 1.3: Added frame and best Ottawa area gas prices. Removed size option, thus simplifying positioning of text and frame images.
Version 1.2: Tightened code to deal with null return codes, etc. Changed preferences for weather update time intervals and level of detail in weather tooltip.
Version 1.1.1 Tidied up weather info tooltip code to deal with empty weather data
Version 1.1 Added Ottawa weather info: temperature on images, and details in tooltip.
Version 1.0 Initial Release
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Comments for Ottawa Traffic Cams
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Jay - September 22, 2005
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Great widget! Very useful! Perfect complement to the GasPrices Feed by Chris that now supports OttawaGasPrices.com...
This comment applies to version 1.3 |
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Paul Hurley - August 28, 2005
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Re: Missing Pictures.
There is nothing amiss with the Widget, but alas, the problem appears to be at the Ministry of Transport. Twice in the past couple of weeks, the images served up by the MoT have been either "image not available" placeholders or, more ominously, a black image with a Government of Ontario logo in the corner. I can’t suggest anything other than try again later. :-(
This comment applies to version 1.3 |
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Frank - August 27, 2005
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Great Widget Thanks! but seems to have stopped showing pictures 27 Aug but Toronto Camone still works? Weather and
gas prices work?
Help?
Thanks
Frank
This comment applies to version 1.3 |
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Paul Hurley - August 3, 2005
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Thanks for the suggestions. I'll schedule some aesthetic changes for the next release. As for presenting the gas prices in a given area, I am somewhat limited by www.OttawaGasPices.com, since volunteers provide the data. As a work-around, clicking the gas price line in the widget will take you to the gas prices web page.
This comment applies to version 1.3 |
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ZepperDude - July 26, 2005
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Great - wrote something almost identical awhile back - but nice to see it released. Could you manage an option to change color of the title bar?
This comment applies to version 1.3 |
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P.C. - July 18, 2005
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I really liked the product - it was enough to convince me to download Konfabulator. This widget is perfect for my requirements and I use to check both traffic and gas prices when heading out on the roads in the morning and when coming home at nights.
One change that would be great if it could be done, would be to allow the user to configure the area to display the lowest gas prices for. Seeing the gas price in Limoges doesn't do me much good if I'm driving from Kanata to Centretown every day for work - allowing this to be configured would provide much more value to me.
This comment applies to version 1.3 |
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Whodunit - February 17, 2005
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I like that the weather is on the new release. It curbs that curiosity when looking at all the snow on the ground. However, when I have multiple widgets open, it seems to run for a while and then close for no apparent reason. Is that due to the site it's getting the images from or the widget itself?
This comment applies to version 1.1.1 |
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K.H - February 14, 2005
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Great.
This comment applies to version 1.1.1 |
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