Wombat Mobile I should be coding or sleeping instead of this...

Hmm, the natural progression for this traffic/map concept is to make it location-based. I should be able to see a map of my proximity without having to enter my street and city. Sort of like pseudo-gps. That opens up a big can of worms. There have been moderate attempts at LBS mobile stuff already, but none of them seemed ready for prime time. There are some big obstacles in this arena.

Plus there's the whole issue of how this would work with the different carriers.

There are some well-funded teams going after the LBS prize, should I stick with picking off low hanging fruit? Damn, the JSR179 Location API for J2ME does look interesting. Does it work?

UPDATE: Bummer, I was able to getLatitude() and getLongitude() with the Location API under emulation, but not on my phone.