Roadtrip Dashboard 2010

Hypothetical scenario: You’re about to take a one-way roadtrip from San Francisco to Omaha… Your girlfriend expresses concern… worried about you driving too much, worried about possible road conditions… Possible solution? My Roadtrip Dashboard!

Hypothetical scenario: You’re about to take a one-way roadtrip from San Francisco to Omaha… Your girlfriend expresses concern… worried about you driving too much, worried about possible road conditions… Possible solution? My Roadtrip Dashboard!

All that’s required is a phone with Twitter & the ability to transmit its current lat/lng to a server, and PRESTO! you can have your own dashboard… Which will publicly display far more real-time information than you would ever really be interested in. Along with showing the current speed, heading, altitude and position (and previous track) on a Google map, the dashboard also used the current geolocation data to determine the closest NPR station (with its strength from the current location), gas, food, lodging. Oh, and it showed the current weather (plus radar) too…. along with a couple other things too.

Link to live site here. (no longer updating location)
Video Time Lapse of the dashboard in action
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