[osmosis-dev] Osmbin-support

[Brett Henderson]

Marcus Wolschon wrote:
>> Sorry, I can't figure out what TMC stands for :-)
>>     
>
> TMC is Traffic Message Channel.
> A digital subchannel channel in RDS.
> RDS is a digital subchanel in analog radio
> used in all of europe to mark spoken
> traffic-announcements (1 bit to automatically
> turn the radio louder or even change the
> frequency to another station that broadcasts
> a traffic announcement),
> the name of the current radio-station
> for display and
> TMC=computer readable messages
> of all the trafic jams, accidents, and
> obstructions in the current state.
> It is commonly used by nagivation-
> software to get updates about traffic
> obstructions while driving.
>   
Ah, gotcha.  I think my car has it (a VW Golf), but it doesn't do much 
in Australia :-)