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Mathew Collins
Mathew Collins

Reputation: 376

Bing maps traffic API not returning any data?

I've been attempting to use the Bing traffic API to return traffic data for a specific area, but I never seem to get any traffic info back, even at peak hours when I can see several incidents listed with the BBC Travel website.

I haven't been able to find a way through the Bing API to show a bounding box on a map to verify that I'm getting the right area, but when I display the bounding rectangle on a google map, it covers the area that I'm interested in. I've also tried expanding the area considerably to include surrounding areas, and then I do sometimes get some data, but that seems quite erratic and disappears again when I expand the bounding box again??

The URL I'm using is:

http://dev.virtualearth.net/REST/v1/Traffic/Incidents/51.4,-2.8,51.7,-2.3/true?o=xml&key=MyKey (South, West, North, East co-ordinates).

And it covers the following area on a google map, which is exactly what I'm expecting:

Map

Am I doing something completely wrong with the API call or is this some weird behaviour that shouldn't be happening?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1134

Answers (1)

rbrundritt
rbrundritt

Reputation: 18023

The BBC pulls in their Traffic incident data from a different source. Looking into the Traffic Manager Module in the Bing Maps V7 control I do see some incidents, not the same as the BBC though. The Bing Maps control also has traffic flow maps as well.

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Here are a couple of other API's you can try out: http://data.gov.uk/dataset/live-traffic-information-from-the-highways-agency-road-network http://www.highways.gov.uk/traffic-information/

Upvotes: 1

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