Comment 10 for bug 579405

In my opinion, if we can keep from using a server for real time info, that will be easier. I'm not sure that we have the needed resource to maintain a server fort such purpose (depends on the user base we're going to have)

The current "french" format is an official european format that should be used by every european countries in the next years (see http://www.datex2.eu/), I think that we can use it as it will expand and be usable by lots of people.

We could have plugins for each main data formats for traffic information (at least BBC's tpegML and datex2 at the moment, and maybe geoRSS after).

From what I've read, tpegML is horrid to use

So far, we have :
- tpegML for BBC
- DatexII for France and more european countries in the futures
- geoRSS (supported by google maps and other apps) : see http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/prototypes/archives/2007/06/traffic_on_goog_1.html for a working realtime conversion of BBC's feed to geoRSS
- others ?

On a side note, I saw that there are rss feeds for highways in the UK, they could be used :
http://www.highways.gov.uk/traffic/11253.aspx