[aprssig] APRS and the Interstates

[Robert Bruninga]

> Around here, in Winter, I'd love road closure 
> information, possibly  road conditions in general.
> I'm not sure how to do that without  
> spamming everything though.

Maryland has a web page that shows the speed of traffic under
most overpasses throughout the commuter roads.  I wrote a
routine that would scan that web page, pull out the speeds, and
post APRS speed-post objects.  Absolutely a perfect application
for the mobile commuter.

Problem is, my routine was written in Qbasic and so it would not
run real-time.  I had to save the WEB page to a text file, then
let my routine run.  So far I havent found anyone with real-time
on-line programming talent that would take on the project.

I would say it would only take a good programmer a few hours to
do.  Probably one hour for the basic function and a few hours to
clean it up.

Bob, WB4APR