Free Traffic alerts in the UK

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Well as i have the T-mobile web and walk i was thinking what could i do to make it more usefull to me and last night i was looking at the Highways agency and noticed that they have traffic alerts on the web site with a really cool map.
I started to think that it would be nice to right an application to interface with it to show on the MDA, and the then i noticed that it had an RSS feed.
So here is the thing to do
Download PRSSreader
http://pda.jasnapaka.com/prssr/
Then add the following url
http://www.highways.gov.uk/rssfeed.rss.xml
then set the options to cache and update every 15minutes and and you then get all the latest highways agencys traffic updates. for a list of rss feeds for your area look here
http://www.highways.gov.uk/traffic/11278.aspx

Travel Directions and maps for free

Came accross this lovely application for driving directions that uses gprs.

If you dont have TOMTOM this is a really cute and nice system with gprs download of

data

available from here 

TomTom menu editor

Ok a lot of people use there MDA for satelite navigation well here is a really nice application to be able to customize the menus, in TOMTOM so that it is easier to just do what you want from the first screen

this is hosted here

direct download here

Tube Guide Freeware

Another cool bit of freeware good if you travel download here

description

Métro finds your way in public transport systems in 300+ cities around the world (Paris, New York, London, Tokyo, any city with a subway & more!).
FREE, FAST & ACCURATE.

Many more features to discover:
- Directions and informations to major tourist attractions (in selected cities)
- Take only the cities you need on your PocketPC
- Easy station search
- Really complete line & station lists: 475 stops in London, 783 in New-York, 1418 in Tokyo, 1526 in Paris (subway & RER & Buses), 243 in Boston, 175 in Washington/Baltimore, 560 in Chicago
- Database exchange through IR, HTTP
- Link with your contatcs !!!

Available in 30 languages!