Trapster for WebOS and the Palm Pre brings the popular traffic advanced warning app right to your favorite smartphone. This app runs on a number of platforms and relies on social aggregation of traffic camera, speed traps, and other traffic-related events. Once you download and run this app on your Pre, you’ll be warned well in advance about any speed traps, traffic cameras, and checkpoints on your route. Mapping is fully integrated, so you’ll see all the interesting points marked on a GPS guided map. Warnings are given based on distance from current location as well as the intersection names.
Trapster relies on its users to compute a confidence level for each warning. You can hit a thumbs-up or a thumbs-down based on whether any given warning turned out to be true or not. This is then aggregated and displayed. So you’ll see a warning for an intersection with a confidence level of “High” or “Low,” depending on how reliably a trap was detected there. Each warning comes with a color coded icon, so everything is clear right on the map. Everything, including notifications, is fully customizable. This is a powerful and useful tool and definitely raises the game in terms of bringing superior and fundamentally useful functions to your Palm Pre.
