[Talk-us] DOT construction updates

[Clifford Snow]

I tried to keep track of WSDOT construction on a state hwy in Seattle. The
website did not have an update feed that I could find. I have used the
state and counties sites in the past to help resolve notes.

A proactive approach would be useful.

Clifford

On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 11:20 AM, 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, 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.) The situation on OSM
> reflects the pre-construction reality —>
> https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/359765#map=15/42.5227/-83.7526)
>
> Martijn
>
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