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18-02-2010, 08:55 PM
http://www.news.com.au/technology/trapster-phone-app-pinpoints-booze-buses/story-e6frfro0-1225830792415
AN application available on many mobile phones is tipping motorists off to the location of police radar traps, speed cameras and booze buses.
The application, known as Trapster, can be used on any GPS-capable phone and allows registered users to plot the locations of booze buses and speed cameras and share those locations with other registered users, The Age newspaper reported.
The information was being republished on US-based Trapster's website, and motorists in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane were using the service.
The Age said it had found several sites, including the location of a booze bus, were correctly identified as police "checkpoints" on the Trapster system.
A Victoria Police spokesman said police were aware of the application.
"While it is disappointing that motorists would consider drink driving and using this technology to attempt to avoid detection, there is nothing currently illegal with the application," the spokesman said.
"While it may give the location of booze buses, be assured that we will have a number of roaming patrols that will catch you," he warned.
AN application available on many mobile phones is tipping motorists off to the location of police radar traps, speed cameras and booze buses.
The application, known as Trapster, can be used on any GPS-capable phone and allows registered users to plot the locations of booze buses and speed cameras and share those locations with other registered users, The Age newspaper reported.
The information was being republished on US-based Trapster's website, and motorists in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane were using the service.
The Age said it had found several sites, including the location of a booze bus, were correctly identified as police "checkpoints" on the Trapster system.
A Victoria Police spokesman said police were aware of the application.
"While it is disappointing that motorists would consider drink driving and using this technology to attempt to avoid detection, there is nothing currently illegal with the application," the spokesman said.
"While it may give the location of booze buses, be assured that we will have a number of roaming patrols that will catch you," he warned.