[aprssig] Traffic info in APRS

[William McKeehan]

Anyone know of an easy way to derrive lat/lon from State, Interstate and mile
marker? Is this info available in a table somewhere or a way to build a table?

Much of the information on the TN DOT web site gives mile marker info.

I have not found TDOT to be uncooperative, but they are not sure how they
could give me the information that I am asking for (and I have not even asked
for anything specific); I got a similar response - we'll look into it.

On Tue, April 5, 2005 2:55 pm, Wes Johnston said:
> The SC DOT has a site that is pretty static, but it does give road
> closures for planned work....
> http://www.scdot.org/getting/roadcloselist.asp?distid=1 for example....
>
> I just contacted someone there, and he was somewhat flabbergasted when I
> asked it they could include lat/lon on the webpage.  The problem it
> seems is when their road crews enter this information, they don't know
> the lat/lon.  I explained to him that we have a way of getting NWS
> watches and warnings into "our system" (I did not use the term APRS),
> and we'd like to beable to use his data as well.  What I got was "well
> I'll look into it", and when I offered my phone number and asked when I
> should call back, he reiterated "I'll look into it".  So, nothing but
> cooperation from 1/50th of the country's DOTs.
>
> Unfortunately, the best thing I can think of to do since there is no
> rhyme or reason for the freely entered text they use to describe the
> locations, is to run a cron script on the web pages every day and have
> that script email me when the page changes so I can _manually_ create an
> object.   bummer!
>
> Wes
>
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