MelRoads - Live traffic images

MelRoads (Melbourne Roads) allows you to select and display images from VicRoads traffic cameras.

You can display a list of all available cameras or a map showing where each camera is located. Selecting a camera from the list or tapping on the camera icon on the map will cause the current image from that camera to be displayed.

When a camera image is displayed, it can then be saved to a "Journey". A Journey is similar to a folder of favourites in you browser. This way you can save all the cameras relevant to, say, your trip to work; then will one tap all those camera images will be displayed on the one screen.

You can have as many Journeys as you want, each with a name of your choice.

The cameras within each Journey can be rearranged in the order of your choice. There is also the option to calculate the optimal order of the cameras based on their geographical location. (This is not guaranteed to always provide the best arrangement, but it will be close.)

A simple Import/Export facility is provided so that your list of Journeys can be transferred to other devices.

A small help screen is also provided that shows the various icons and a brief description of what functions they perform.

There is also the facility to nominate the quality of the camera image that is displayed. In most cases the dimensions of the image from the VicRoads cameras is very small. In a lot of cases they are just 352x288 pixels which make it difficult to get a proper appreciation of the amount of traffic. Therefore, the images can be resized - but in so doing, quality is lost. You can select the quality the best suits your needs: Low, Medium, Fine, Finest. Finest results in no resizing. Which you choose will depend on personal taste and screen size.