TrafficGauge
Eric Godwin


Stop sitting in traffic and start outsmarting it!

Get a real-time traffic map right on your computer desktop. Pinpoint jams and pick a quicker route before you head out the door. Handy at home and the office.

Real-time traffic maps are currently available for Atlanta, Chicago, Denver, Los Angeles, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Phoenix, Portland, OC/Inland Empire, Salt Lake City, San Diego, San Francisco, and more.

TrafficGauge also offers Mobile Traffic Maps that provide real-time traffic anytime and anywhere. Visit www.trafficgauge.com.

Supports Atlanta, Chicago, Denver, Los Angeles, Louisville, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Phoenix, Portland, OC/Inland Empire, Salt Lake City, San Diego, San Fernando Valley, and San Francisco


13479 Downloads
Version 2.0 - Updated May 30, 2007

Comments for TrafficGauge


mattozan - July 18, 2006
Widget works OK, I just find it less useful than some of the other traffic widgets. The chunked nature of the displayed lines of traffic doesn't convey much info. I prefer to see the actual traffic incidents on a map as well as relative speeds.
Sacramento is available through the web version, but not in this widget version.
This comment applies to version 1.0

Eric - July 6, 2006
Toby,

This widget makes use of an animated gif retrieved over the web. Unfortunately the widget engine itself has complete control of rendering the image. For some reason it would appear that any animated gif (retrieved locally or remotely) takes a rather high amount of processor resources and can trigger a number of page faults. Most likely they are soft faults which are resulting in the burden on the processor.
This comment applies to version 1.0

Toby - June 30, 2006
Good widget but something is definately wrong with it. My friend and I both get 4000 page faults a second when it's running. Compared to maybe 8 pagefaults for the rest of the system. Other than that it's a good and helpful program
This comment applies to version 1.0

Ryan - June 28, 2006
Check out www.trafficgauge.com for a better task tray icon version called TrafficGauge for PC. It's a quick download, and has a very simple but conveninet UI. The TrafficGauge for PC version downloads data every couple of minutes so it's always refreshed without requiring user action.
This comment applies to version 1.0

Eric Godwin - June 15, 2006
The cities that can be supported are limited to those that provide quality traffic information. Most of the major cities provide incident data, but do not make flow or congestion information available.

There are plans to support Seattle in the near future. Stay tuned!
This comment applies to version 1.0

Dave - May 9, 2006
Found San Francisco under Bay Area, nevermind...
This comment applies to version 1.0

Dave - May 9, 2006
It says it works for San Francisco, but upon download it is not there. ????
This comment applies to version 1.0

David - May 3, 2006
Great if you live in on of the major US cities. If you live in Cincinnati, Indianapolis, Miami or Tampa I guess you're out of luck. Pretty cool though....
This comment applies to version 1.0

Patrick - April 11, 2006
Hi,

I live in Vancouver, BC Canada. Is it possible to expand this traffic gauge to major Canadian cities (ie Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Ottawa, Toronto, Montreal, Quebec City, Halifax) as well? Thanks!
This comment applies to version 1.0

Joseph - March 17, 2006
Is it possible to make it automatically refreshing the map every couple minutes?
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Doug - March 14, 2006
It's a neat idea, but as to the widget itself, I'd like to see a scalable version...at lower resolutions (1024x768) this takes up a lot of real estate.
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Robert - March 14, 2006
Why not Seattle? I own the TrafficGauge and use it in Seattle... but it is in my car. Would like to have the same info on my laptop so I can check before I get in the car. Please add if you can, thanks!
This comment applies to version 1.0