(April 26, 2010: Updated with newest features)

A few weeks ago in Colorado Springs there was a fuel tanker crash on the I-25 Interstate, spilling thousands of gallons of fuel and closing the Interstate for over 5 hours.  Traffic patterns were a complete mess as side-roads became major thoroughfares.  As I drove home from work, I found myself wishing I had access to springscam.markwoodman.com on my iPhone.  But I built that traffic-cam site in Flex (Flash), so that wasn’t an option.

That led me down the path on how to build iPhone faux-apps with iWebKit, and within a few hours I had a functioning version that worked pretty well and looked pretty good.

If you have an iPhone, check out iSpringsCam.markwoodman.com .  Here’s a run-down of the features:

• Use iSpringsCam like an App
  1. Open iSpringsCam Home screen
  2. Press (+) button in Safari
  3. Press “Add to Home Screen”
  4. iSpringsCam will now run full-screen (no browser bar)

• Main Screen
  1. Use the “All on Map” to get all camera markers on a live Google Map with I-25 traffic conditions
  2. Enter part of a street name in the filter field, and the list will display only the matching camera names
  3. Select one of the cameras to open up the Single Camera View

• Single Camera View
  1. You’ll see the latest image from that camera and a static map image of the camera location
  2. Rotate your iPhone to fill your screen with the camera image
  3. The camera image will auto-refresh once per minute
  4. To manually refresh the camera image, tap the image or the refresh button
  5. Touch the “Live Map” button (or the map image) to get a live Google Map with the camera’s image and traffic conditions on I-25

• Google Map View (with current traffic conditions)
  1. Pinch and expand the map to zoom in or out
  2. Touch a marker to see that camera’s image in a balloon
  3. Touch the “X” on the balloon to close it
  4. Touch the camera image in the balloon to open the single-camera view

If you don’t have an iPhone, here are some screenshots: