<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Cool. I added simple CSV and JSON files with all the web site of the DOTs for the 50 states + DC. I verified all the web site links and they seem good. We can take it anywhere from here. <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">For example if someone would care to check these web sites for a construction RSS feed or a twitter feed, or any other type of structured information regarding new road construction, that would be a great start. You can update this file directly with new columns: <a href="https://github.com/osmlab/dot-feed/blob/master/scripts/state_table.csv" class="">https://github.com/osmlab/dot-feed/blob/master/scripts/state_table.csv</a> or submit it as a ticket.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Martijn</div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Mar 16, 2016, at 1:31 PM, Ian Dees <<a href="mailto:ian.dees@gmail.com" class="">ian.dees@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">A few years ago I started collecting information about how DOTs announce major changes and construction and didn't get very far. In fact, I only found Minnesota's DOT RSS and Newsletter (<a href="http://www.dot.state.mn.us/roadwork/current.html" class="">http://www.dot.state.mn.us/roadwork/current.html</a>) before getting distracted and mapping.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I would be happy to rekindle this and made a GitHub project for it here:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://github.com/osmlab/dot-feed" class="">https://github.com/osmlab/dot-feed</a><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Feel free to join in and help find this kind of information.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 6:20 PM, Martijn van Exel <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:m@rtijn.org" target="_blank" class="">m@rtijn.org</a>></span> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word" class="">Hi all, <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I was thinking about a good way for the community to get a feed of construction updates from state DOTs. Has anyone ever attempted this? A good start should be a list of state DOTs (I found <a href="http://www.dot.state.ak.us/transpo_resources.shtml" target="_blank" class="">http://www.dot.state.ak.us/transpo_resources.shtml</a>, not sure if it’s 100% current). But where to go from there? Every state DOT has its own mechanism / format to distribute updates. Do they all have an RSS feed? Or twitter?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">At this point I am just curious to hear if anyone else has thought about this already and if so what you have come up with so far.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">(What triggered this again for me: I heard someone mention that the work on the I-96/US-23 interchange in Michigan was complete, but could not find any confirmation. See this pretty cool video from MDOT for what they are doing there: <a href="https://youtu.be/K9wQoIc2cLc?t=75" target="_blank" class="">https://youtu.be/K9wQoIc2cLc?t=75</a>.) The situation on OSM reflects the pre-construction reality —> <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/359765#map=15/42.5227/-83.7526" target="_blank" class="">https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/359765#map=15/42.5227/-83.7526</a>)</div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Martijn</div></font></span></div><br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">
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