SpeedTrap : Locate Road Speed Traps in your Area

Added: 3 Mar, 2008 (1,487 Views)

Want to avoid being pulled by traffic police and getting slapped with a speeding ticket ? Enter SpeedTrap. It is a web-based map mashup (powered by Microsoft Live Maps) where users find and pinpoint speed trap locatitons. The idea behind the service is to find and pinpoint all road speed traps. Currently there are over 50.000 marked speedtraps. SpeedTrap membership is totally free. Speeding tickets are not.

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Features

  • Search and locate red light cameras and speed traps in your area .
  • Search by City, Zip Code, State, or Cross Street.
  • View local traffic: Slow / Normal / Fast.
  • Get a map view of the area along with the location of each trap.
  • Rate and comment on individual speed cameras.
  • Improve the service by adding missing speed traps.

SpeedTrap does a pretty good job for marking speed cameras within United States. When it comes to Europeans, they should should check out Foxytag - a free, legal and collaborative system to signal speed cameras on mobile phones. It claims to cover most of the speed cameras on European roads.

Visit SpeedTrap @ [ njection.com/speedtrap]

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    3 Comments »

    Comment by Zicsoft
    2008-03-04 13:53:00

    This is great! Now I can create an imaginary speed trap on the street where I live and scare away all the idiots who shortcut through at 50 MPH!

    Comment by Brainiac
    2008-03-05 10:47:51

    Excellent idea. I am gonna definitely make use of it as well. :-)
    Thank you!

     
     
    2008-03-08 17:22:52

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