New route service launches
Online service offers route planning and traffic avoidance
Don't get lost here...
Drivers can also get up to date traffic information by dialling 118 627 from their mobile or landline, or using WAP.
Services provided by the portal include:
- Route planning
- Accident/delay warnings – on the web and as a 118 number
- FindMobile – a service identifying where you left your mobile, or the location of other mobiles
- Mapping services – display a map on your web site or request a map to be sent via WAP to your mobile if you become lost
GetMeThere.co.uk’s aim is to create an easy to use motorists’ portal where users can plan all aspects of their journey, enabling them to get back to the basics of enjoying driving and "experiencing stress free travel" -- on Britain's motorways??
With this in mind, GetMeThere.co.uk offers a number of services based around route planning, traffic and mapping. Live traffic information is sourced from a unique data collection system provided by ITIS Holdings, combined with data from the AA. Together these systems collect and analyse traffic data from tens of thousands of vehicles to provide a constantly updated source of traffic incident type, causes, and likely delay for the entire UK strategic road network.
The free to use tools include:
- Route planning – A journey-planning tool supplying the user with comprehensive printable step-by-step driving directions for any route in the UK and Europe. A simple form requests start location, optional waypoints (such as service stations) and destination postcodes or full addresses, providing the following routing options:
Journey Type – Fastest / Shortest / Economic
Vehicle Speed – Fast car / Slow car / Fast truck / Slow truck
Avoid Toll Road – Yes / No
Specify arrival time: Hour/Minute
The user is presented with a scalable route map complete with turn-by-turn directions and elapsed time and distance indicators. There is also an option to zoom in on each junction and display traffic conditions and relevant points of interest such as petrol stations en route.
- Traffic reports – A fast desktop application displaying incidents on a scalable UK map, including audio and visual traffic alert warnings and hotspot areas around London, Birmingham and Manchester.
Situations include road or junction closures, traffic jams and delays, incidents such as accidents, traffic lights or railway crossings and warnings of lane closures, road works or car fires.
- Street maps – A street level map making tool allowing the user to create a custom map of a postcode, town or full address with overlays displaying key points of interest (POI’s) including - hotels, restaurants, airports, parking and hospitals for locations across the UK and Europe.
- Location manager – users can save time when using route planning by storing details of all previously located addresses such as their home and office or any other European destination in the location manager.
Pay-per-use tools include:
- 118 627 or 118 MAP - users can dial 118 627 from any phone at any time, to receive up-to-the second traffic, weather, tube and directory enquiries information wherever they are. 118 627 is said to be the cheapest, cross-network, short-number traffic information service available in the UK and it doesn’t even have a difficult to remember number – just remember 118 plus 627 spells MAP on a telephone keypad, hence 118 MAP.
- Business maps – this pay-as-you-go mapping service helps you create a customised interactive map for your business or personal Web site in four steps. Displayed on your Web site, Business Maps offers your customers an exact location, with a street, town or regional level view in addition to door-to-door route planning.
- FindMobile - ever wondered if your children, partner or employees really are where they say they are? Or lost your mobile phone and just can't remember where you left it? Now you can find out. GetMeThere.co.uk enables registered users to identify the location of consenting mobile phone users and display their position on a map. Bit scary this one...
- Mobile phone services – GetMeThere.co.uk locates the position of your mobile phone and then supplies the following services:
- MobileTraffic – Just text “TRAFFIC” to shortcode 82085 and GetMeThere.co.uk will send you a map, via WAP push, showing current traffic conditions in the area you are located.
- MobileLost – Just text “LOST” to shortcode 82085 and GetMeThere.co.uk will send you a map, via WAP push, showing where you are.
Jon West, Director of GetMeThere.co.uk said “GetMeThere.co.uk is designed with the intention of developing the best independent motorists’ portal in the UK. The website offers a number of free to use and pay-per-use tools enabling an easy and smooth journey across the UK and into Europe”.
einion yrth said:
It's just down the road from my uncle's house. Plus the B885 is a great little road to drive along.
Very narrow, blind summits immediately followed by either sharp bends, loose sheep, or both. Certainly requires concentration.
Indeed it is. Lots of fun once you've learnt it. Like the Nordschleife but with on comming traffic. Oh, and sheep, bunnies, the occasional cow. Not forgetting rain. Then there's the frost in the forrest section on the winter.
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