TrapsterMobile v0.972
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Your mobile phone or navigation device alerts you as you approach police speed traps.
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When you see a trap, report it by pressing a button on your phone, or calling a toll free number. Other user's phones will alert them as they approach the trap. Trapster learns the credibility of traps based on how many users agree. It also learns the credibility of each user, over time.
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So how does it work? Our goal is to make it so simple that you don't need to know. But in case you are interested, it combines technologies such as GPS and wireless location, voice transcription, geocoding, reverse geocoding, and SMS, with a central database server. It communicates in real time, using the Internet.
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Why you need trapster even if you already have a radar detector
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Even the latest, most expensive radar detectors are useless against modern police enforcement technologies such as instant-on and and laser. Your radar/laser detector will still beep, but in almost all cases, only after it is too late. The only way a radar or laser detector can help you is if it beeps in time for you to slow down before the officer gets a reading on your speed. With instant-on and laser, this only happens if the officer activates early or "misses" the shot, and some of the signal leaks past a car in front of you. Radar detectors are still effective for more traditional (Ka etc.) band radar. We recommend that you use both Trapster and a radar/laser detector for the best possible coverage. Also radar detectors are illegal in many US states, and are illegal nationwide for commercial vehicles.
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A map of speed traps on a Web site will NOT help you avoid a ticket
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Police are not stupid. They change the locations where they set up speed traps many times per day. Only real time data is useful. Trapster data is real time data.
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Speed trap location data is only useful if you can actually use it. You can't just look on a map and memorize all the trap locations. Trapster continuously communicates with your mobile phone or connected device (for example the Dash Express or CarPC). Data is never stale. And it's FREE.
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What about my Garmin/TomTom?. After about a gazillion of you (our users) asked for Garmin / TomTom support, we implemented it! We have done our best to simulate real time data. Sign up and check out our innovative approach to setting areas, times, days, and alert types of interest, and for automated notifications!
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Don't I need a bunch of users in my area before Trapster is effective?
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No. Obviously the more users in your area, the better, but you only need a few active users in your area for Trapster live police reports to be effective. Get some friends to sign up! Why not? It's FREE! If you don't have any friends, we are very sorry to hear that, but the good news is that you can still set reminders about hiding spots or photo enforcement points for yourself, even if there are no other users in your area.
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Aren't there already Web sites that list red light camera and speed trap locations?
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Trapster isn't a Web site. It's a mobile phone application and real time speed trap sharing system that happens to also have a Web site.
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Could pranksters or even the police themselves come up with ways to trick the system?
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Of course. People can game eBay rankings or Google search ranks too, and they do. The algorithms are still useful and effective for the majority of users, the majority of the time. As far as Officers - they are way too busy to go to all that trouble. They don't take it nearly that seriously.
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Isn't this fundamentally wrong or illegal or something?
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If you are concerned you should probably check the laws in your state or country, but our lawyers don't think so. In fact, the police we've spoken with actually like the idea. It beeps, people slow down, they have met their objective, you save money on the ticket and insurance, and everyone is happy. The police can always find plenty of other people to issue violations to. People who don't use Trapster, that is.
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As far as the ethics of it all: Speed limits are listed as fixed, but enforced as guidelines. Here in Southern California where we are located, traffic never moves at or under the speed limit. This means good-intentioned drivers often end up not only with a ticket, but confused and angry about why they were chosen. Unfortunately speed traps are sometimes created and enforced as intentionally deceptive revenue generators, but this is the exception rather than the rule. We think most police just want you to slow down. You can either have them pull you over to tell you that personally, or allow your phone the chance to save them the trouble.
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Installation instructions
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To download Trapster to your phone use the following instructions:
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1) Go to Settings | System | About on your phone to check if it runs Windows Mobile 5 or 6. Also if your phone does not have internal GPS and/or WiFi, you will need to purchase an external Bluetooth GPS accessory.
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2) Download this file to your PC, not your phone!, run it, and ActiveSync will install the application to your phone. Trapster? Mobile Setup (recommended). If you don't use ActiveSync, you can download the CAB file directly to your device using this link: Trapster Mobile CAB file. Then after it is saved to the device, click the saved file to start the installation.
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Note: If you are using a Bluetooth GPS please read this. Trapster uses something called the GPS Intermediate Driver. This is the "right" way to program using Windows Mobile, but it is tricky to set up. We also allow you to specify a direct COM port connection (like Google Maps does) but this means only one GPS application can run at a time. See the links to instructions at the bottom of this page for setting up Bluetooth GPS with the GPS Intermediate Driver. Also, GPS may be "locked" on some phones, for example the new ATT BlackJack II GPS is limited to TeleNav. See links at the bottom of this page for helpful information about how to unlock GPS on those phones.
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3) Navigate to the Programs | Trapster Mobile Start menu folder on your phone.
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4) Start the application by clicking the "Start" icon (green "play" arrow).
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5) Optional: Click the "Setup" icon (wrench) and choose the location technology, GPS, WiFi (WPS), or hybrid ("Both"). There is normally no need to do this, as "Both" mode automatically and continually uses the best location technology. If your phone has WiFi support it is highly recommended that you leave "Both" or WiFi (WPS) mode enabled (even if your phone also has GPS). WiFi location is a supplement to GPS. GPS location can take several minutes in some cases, while WiFi location is almost instantaneous. Also WiFi location works indoors, and in covered places where GPS coverage is limited. You can check WiFi coverage zones on the Skyhook site. Note: The phone will automatically determine and use whichever technology is best at the current time.
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Feel free to try the different modes to see what results you get!
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6) You can receive alerts, and report trap locations, only after Trapster determines your current location. You can see the status and your current location in the message at the top of the trap display screen, seen by clicking the "View" icon (eyeballs). The message indicates whether GPS or WiFi (WPS) is currently active. This indicates that the application has determined your location.
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7) To see specific information about traps near your current location, click the "View" icon (eyeballs).
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8) Report traps at your current GPS/WiFi location using the corresponding icons.
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9) Alternatively: Report traps at your current GPS/WiFi location using the shortcut keys. The default shortcut keys are as follows:
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1 Report a live police trap at current GPS/WiFi location
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2 Report a red light camera at current GPS/WiFi location
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3 Report a speed camera at current GPS/WiFi location
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4 Report a usual police hiding place at current GPS/WiFi location 5 Mute/Unmute
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Note: If you have shortcut keys enabled, they will take effect in all programs. For example if your shortcut key is "1" for "Report Live Police" and you type "1" in an e-mail message, you will get a dialog that says "Do you want to report police?". We certainly hope you don't drive and type e-mails at the same time, but nevertheless shortcut keys are off by default. Click the "Setup" icon (wrench) and check the box next to "Keys..." to enable them. You may customize your shortcut key configuration using "Setup | Keys..."
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10) For each type of alert, a corresponding audio file will play. You can customize the sounds with your own WAV audio files as follows:
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a) Record your own sounds using Windows Sound Recorder or a similar program. They must be saved in WAV format. For best results, keep them to about a second or two in length and save in low quality (about 10-20K in size).
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b) Through ActiveSync File Explorer, or on the device, put the files at: My Device | Program Files | TrapsterMobile2 | Sound
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c) Click Setup (wrench icon) in Trapster folder on the device.
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d) Click Sounds...
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e) Select the appropriate sound you would like to change, click "Change", and select your new sound file
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11) You can customize your mobile alert preferences such as alert radius and what kinds of traps you want to be alerted about here.
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Note: Please plug your car charger into your phone while running these apps (GPS consumes battery life)! If your phone does not have internal GPS, you will need to purchase an external Bluetooth GPS accessory. Even if your phone does have GPS, you may want to consider the external Bluetooth accessory. We find that the external accessories get a better signal, even sometimes indoors, are much faster to acquire a GPS fix, and have much longer battery life. Have a phone with the GPS "locked"? These links may help. How to unlock GPS on the ATT BlackJack II and From the Microsoft site: How to unhide the GPS control panel and configure Bluetooth GPS on some PPC handsets
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