After I moved to the US four months ago, I tried to use Waze as a primary navigation app. It does a great job on speed trap alerting in more or less urban areas but doesn't work really well on inter-city highways for two reasons:
So, to overcome these problems (and to learn Android development) I wrote an Android application (named "Highway Radar") alerting on Daze reports well in advance (up to 10mi) + warning on suspicious aircraft (data is taken from ADS-B via ADSB-exchange service).
I've been using this app myself for several months and didn't have any plans on publishing it TBH; however, I thought that it may not only be useful to me but to other people not using V1 as well.
Now I'm looking for beta-testers for the application and would appreciate any feedback on it (please post on this thread or PM me on this forum).
Play store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.highwayradar.app
Web site: https://highwayradar.com/
The application requires some additional configuration for Daze alerts. Actually, it should be pretty clear how to perform these extra steps (also looking for feedback on how clear is it actually) but just in case here is a quote from the application's site:
I also want to mention that this app doesn't work really well in urban areas since it doesn't have a road graph inside so it can't accurately distinguish if the police report on the same street or not, however, it unleashes its full power on highways.
I've tested it on ~1000mi total of highway driving including two 300mi trips and many ~50mi trips. I can't tell how many times it saved me from the police traps (since it gives a good understanding of police activity in the area and I just didn't speed in the dangerous places). However, there was one clear save from the aircraft patrol (was alerted on a Smokey aircraft).
I'm looking for feedback and suggestions on the application since it is almost impossible to make a beautiful product entirely alone. I have some plans on adding an overlay mode (e.g., floating window over Google maps / Waze) and showing some sort of map instead of just directions. I also want to thank @Vortex for inspiring me for publishing this application.
This is a purely non-commercial application, so it doesn't have any paid features or ads inside. However, if you wish to donate, you can do it here: Donate with PayPal.
- it often alerts too late,
- it doesn't know anything about VASCAR patrolling from aircraft (possible in WA, where I live).
So, to overcome these problems (and to learn Android development) I wrote an Android application (named "Highway Radar") alerting on Daze reports well in advance (up to 10mi) + warning on suspicious aircraft (data is taken from ADS-B via ADSB-exchange service).
I've been using this app myself for several months and didn't have any plans on publishing it TBH; however, I thought that it may not only be useful to me but to other people not using V1 as well.
Now I'm looking for beta-testers for the application and would appreciate any feedback on it (please post on this thread or PM me on this forum).
Play store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.highwayradar.app
Web site: https://highwayradar.com/
The application requires some additional configuration for Daze alerts. Actually, it should be pretty clear how to perform these extra steps (also looking for feedback on how clear is it actually) but just in case here is a quote from the application's site:
NOTE: Despite entering www.waze.com as a server address will show real-time police alerts directly from Waze, it violates Waze ToS and might be illegal in your country.
The server address can be entered in the settings menu under "Server hostname" field.
I also want to mention that this app doesn't work really well in urban areas since it doesn't have a road graph inside so it can't accurately distinguish if the police report on the same street or not, however, it unleashes its full power on highways.
I've tested it on ~1000mi total of highway driving including two 300mi trips and many ~50mi trips. I can't tell how many times it saved me from the police traps (since it gives a good understanding of police activity in the area and I just didn't speed in the dangerous places). However, there was one clear save from the aircraft patrol (was alerted on a Smokey aircraft).
I'm looking for feedback and suggestions on the application since it is almost impossible to make a beautiful product entirely alone. I have some plans on adding an overlay mode (e.g., floating window over Google maps / Waze) and showing some sort of map instead of just directions. I also want to thank @Vortex for inspiring me for publishing this application.
This is a purely non-commercial application, so it doesn't have any paid features or ads inside. However, if you wish to donate, you can do it here: Donate with PayPal.
Since Highway Radar has a dedicated forum section now, I'm closing this thread to prevent it from becoming even bigger and messier.
For feature requests / questions / proposals please create new threads in Highway Radar forum section. This would make searching for the information much easier.
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