Trapster
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.
Tags: camera, radar, speed, traffic
Why is this app currently not in the app catalog? My friend was able to down load it the other day but to day it does not show up.
I found the answer to my own question at trapsters website:
Important announcement (updated 10/21): The WebOS app that was previously posted had some serious issues that did not show up until a large number of users tried to use the app simultaneously. We were forced to shut off the app. We have already fixed the problem, but some additional issues were uncovered in testing. We hope to have an update posted this week. We are very sorry about the trouble. Thank you for your patience.
I am not seeing this trapster in app catalaog from my pre.