Absolutely awesome - live speedtrap alerts on the iPhone or similarsmartphone

Npw your mobile phone or navigation device can alert you as you
approach police speed traps. http://trapster.com/

Trapster.com is a social-networking speed trap warning website.
Website users receive and submit warnings about nearby speed traps,
red light cameras, speed cameras and live police officer locations.
The warnings are superimposed on Google Maps, which sounds impressive,
but even better, an iPhone application has recently been released for
testing.

Trapster uses the iPhone’s GPS to track the driver and whenever he/she
spots a police officer or red light camera they can push the screen to
mark their position and send an alert to the central database. This
upload takes just a few seconds, according to Tenereillo, and other
drivers in the area will soon be alerted with an animated icon along
with audio.
Your position is marked by a red dot and a grey alert circle shows an
area where you will receive warnings. The alert area can be shrunk or
expanded according to your needs – if you’re driving very fast then
you might set it at one mile away. While we were cruising down the
street, Tenereillo’s iPhone continuously blurted out “live police”,
“police often hide here” and “red light camera”.

These alerts were recently placed into the database by other users and
if the warnings become too annoying you can silence them until a new
one pops up.

A new user recently entered a red light camera near our position so we
drove there to check it out for real. Sure enough, at the exact spot
marked on Google Maps, there was a red light camera. Also the “police
often hide here” was proven true as we spotted a sneaky police officer
tucked behind a sign as we were driving back to the hotel. Tenereillo
then tapped his iphone and sent a “Live Police” alert to warn other
drivers that there is currently an officer sitting at that spot.

How do they handle anti-social people who may try to enter false
information?
Go to http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/39252/113/ for more
information and a video..