Don't piss off a travel writer

A guy at Frommer's has declared war on speed traps because he was caught in one. I had no idea there were so many websites dedicated to helping you avoid the same fate, but he has a list:

• www.copspy.com and www.speedtrap.org offer simple text listings of known speed traps throughout the USA, sorted by city and town name. The board for Raymond, Washington, for example, has this advice: "I'm a 'townie' and I can tell you: Beware of the entire Raymond-South Bend strip of Hwy. 101. The speed limit changes SEVEN times in the five or six mile stretch." Speedtrap.org also offers advice on fighting speeding tickets and getting speed traps in your town shut down.
• www.beartraps.com takes a slightly different geographical approach, its database broken down by interstate highway, then state, then proximity to an exit number.
• http://njection.com/speedtrap goes more high-tech, with a Google Maps mashup that tracks speed traps worldwide. Hover your cursor over a little red dot to get details (location, speed limit, and type of speed detection), then zoom in to get the exact visual location of the trap, on a map or satellite image. Njection's president, Shannon Atkinson, has posted a tutorial on how to use the site on YouTube.
• www.speedtrapped.com is a similar system that map traps via the amazing Google Earth software, available for free download at http://earth.google.com.
• www.trapster.com is a mobile phone application that alerts you when you're approaching a trap listed in their database. Several other sites, including Pocket GPS World (www.pocketgpsworld.com/modules.php?name=Cameras), offer similar application for mobile GPS devices.