Road speed app for phone ( android )

daveyjp

Garmins have it, but like all databases it goes out of date. I can't trust it.

Notmyrealname

consumers_revenge wrote: »

I want a mapping device or gps which includes the current speed of the road I’m on as there’s not always signs or indications.

There are always signs and indications. There are signs when you enter a change of speed limit. In extra urban areas there are repeater signs for roads that are not the national speed limit and in urban areas there are repeater signs for any limit that is not 30MPH.

So if you're in an urban area and you see no repeater signs the limit is 30MPH. If you're out in the middle of nowhere and there are no repeater signs the limit is 60MPH on a single carriageway and 70MPH on a dual carriageway or motorway.

Have you not passed a driving test?

Cash-Strapped.T32

To be fair to the OP, it is easy to be in a totally unfamiliar area, and to miss the odd speed sign here or there.
It might be an area with (to you) odd road design & you're looking around for cars from unexpected angles - It might be dark, and you simply can't see them due to poor lighting - Or just to totally miss them due to foliage/overgrown trees etc..

It only has to be a single sign you fail to clock in a million, but if it's the first one in a new speed area then you're leaving yourself wide open.

Not sticking up for being asleep at the wheel (or bars for me), I'm just saying.

treeboa wrote: »

http://www.pocketgpsworld.com

try these, have their android software running beside google maps

Do you mean that CamerAlert program?
It looks good for what it is, and for me would probably be useful as a way of getting a simple audio warning just so I can be on my toes if/when a speed cam is coming up.

I wouldn't want to use it often, not on my familiar routes, nor would I want to use it in it's sat-nav map mode; But when I'm riding in unfamiliar areas it would be nice to know when a cam is coming up (like others, I rarely trust my sat nav for things like cameras or speed limits), and it's simple nature would make it something you'd be willing to actually use in day to day life.

However I can't get my head round that guy's FAQ; I get the 59p D/L price, and I get the first free map update, but I can't nail down whether after that point you need to keep paying per update, or if you need to get a paid account on GPS world in order to regularly update - Or if you just update for free through your normal GPS world forum account..
Could you advise please?

rsvtoddy

Sygic Aura gives speed limit information for the road you are on, but as said above don't rely on it being 100% accurate.

Notmyrealname

consumers_revenge wrote: »

Its not I want to use the phone to tell me how fast Im going but I want the app to tell me the speed of the road Im currently on.

I do quite alot of travelling on unfamiliar roads and want to stay legal, some are just downright confusing. Within 500 yards of mu own house is a 20,30 n 40 with just 1 turn between them

Cheers,

On the A614 there is a town called Howden. Heading east from that it is NSL until just outside Holme on Spalding Moor. A few years ago, there were some major pipeworks being done a few miles outside of Howden as they installed a new gas pipe to supply gas to the main UK network. A temporary speed limit of 40MPH was put on a mile stretch around the area of the works. Meanwhile, the rail bridge was replaced and a 30 limit was put on there as well.

Even though it has all been NSL for nearly half a decade, driving out of Howden Tomtom will say 60MPH for about a mile then 30MPH for another mile then 60MPH again for about a mile and a half, then 40MPH for a mile and then 60MPH all the way to Holme on Spalding Moor 30 limit. BUT if you appoached Holme on Spalding Moor relying on the Satnav to tell you the right limit, you'd possibly be done for speeding in a 40 zone as they recently put up a 40 limit on the south entrance. As you left HOSM you'd be done for speeding in a 30 limit as they changed the small 40 limit on the exit of the village to 30MPH and extended it as well to take in a couple of S bends.

The apps are only as good as the information on them and they tend to be months if not years out of date. We had some roads around here dropped to 50 for 6 months for reasons no-one can work out before being returned to NSL and that speed change never showed up on satnavs. If a speed limit has recently been lowered you can guarantee if there's a camera there you will get caught if you're relying on these apps or Satnav. And you have no defence. "My app/satnav told me it was 60" is no excuse.

As I said, the only guaranteed way is to use what you were taught which I posted and if you get caught in a rural area doing 60 when the limit was 40 and there were no repeater signs, you DO have a defence because the signs were legally required so the limit was unenforceable without them.

Notmyrealname

consumers_revenge wrote: »

Can work out the speeds ussually, but fair enough if theres no quick app :-)

You passed a driving test. The information is in the highway code. I've already posted how to do it.

daveyjp

Yesterday A1 around Newcastle. Signage says 50, Garmin showing 70.

Lum

Notmyrealname wrote: »

So if you're in an urban area and you see no repeater signs the limit is 30MPH. If you're out in the middle of nowhere and there are no repeater signs the limit is 60MPH on a single carriageway and 70MPH on a dual carriageway or motorway.

Have you not passed a driving test?

Incorrect.

The requirement for a default 30 limit (a restricted road) is a system of at least 3 street lamps that are up to 183 metres apart. (Section 82(1)(a) RTRA 1984)

If there's no street lamps then it's not a restricted road, so in the absence of any other signage/repeaters then it would be NSL.

This one is particularly fun given the current trend for switching streetlights off after midnight.

davemorton

daveyjp wrote: »

Yesterday A1 around Newcastle. Signage says 50, Garmin showing 70.

Are they not just advisory signs, the ones that cause all the congestion as there is no need for them ?

Notmyrealname

Lum wrote: »

Incorrect.

The requirement for a default 30 limit (a restricted road) is a system of at least 3 street lamps that are up to 183 metres apart. (Section 82(1)(a) RTRA 1984)

If there's no street lamps then it's not a restricted road, so in the absence of any other signage/repeaters then it would be NSL.

This one is particularly fun given the current trend for switching streetlights off after midnight.

I was giving a general overview and as most people don't carry a tape measure they can use whilst driving down a road at 30MPH, that suffices. You only need to be pedantic about the spacing if contesting a speeding ticket.
Why would it be fun if they turn off the streetlights? My car illuminates stuff at the left hand side of the road. On all UK cars the beam pattern is designed to. Or haven't you ever noticed your headlights reflecting off signs at the left hand side, the reflection of the light only stopping virtually as the front end of your car passes the sign?