[Talk-us] DOT construction updates

[Nathan Mills]

OKDOT provides updates on Twitter as well as posts weekly (and occasionally more often when warranted) "Traffax" PDF updates on their website that has a list of all scheduled roadwork and closures on state highways. Back in the olden days Traffax was blasted via fax to all the news outlets in the state, hence the name.

When I was still in Oklahoma, Traffax was the primary source I used to update OSM with road closures, construction zones, and reopenings. (When I didn't have direct personal knowledge of such from my travels)

-Nathan

On March 16, 2016 2:20:57 PM EDT, Martijn van Exel <m at rtijn.org> wrote:
>Hi all, 
>
>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
>http://www.dot.state.ak.us/transpo_resources.shtml
><http://www.dot.state.ak.us/transpo_resources.shtml>, 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?
>
>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.
>
>(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: https://youtu.be/K9wQoIc2cLc?t=75
><https://youtu.be/K9wQoIc2cLc?t=75>.) The situation on OSM reflects the
>pre-construction reality —>
>https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/359765#map=15/42.5227/-83.7526
><https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/359765#map=15/42.5227/-83.7526>)
>
>Martijn
>
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