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TheGoldDiamond9 / weatherscan-traffic

Traffic Addition for buffbears' Weatherscan emulator. I forgot to fork lol so I'll provide link to original project.
https://github.com/buffbears/Weatherscan
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Issue with traffic conditions; idea for added page #1

Open tmanokc opened 1 week ago

tmanokc commented 1 week ago

The Traffic Conditions page currently displays all listed incidents (e.g., construction, accidents) as “Low Impact”, regardless of actual risk of congestion in affected and nearby routes; no incidents on that page are labeled with the “Medium Impact” and “High Impact” tags.

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There’s also a bug that causes the Traffic Overview map to periodically break, causing roadways to fail to generate completely and later not generate at all before being restored to normal.

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The Traffic segment also included a Traffic Flow page that showed average travel times and speeds on area roadways based on congestion at the identified local routes. If possible, see if it’s possible for the TomTom API dataset to allow recreation of that page.

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TheGoldDiamond9 commented 1 week ago

Hello, to address the first issue, the impact does change, I have personally seen medium impact be used but it isn't too common, not everyday is there a fatal car crash nearby. The map disappearing may be due to an API key issue, a computer performance issue, or you might not be up to date with either browser or the latest emulator version. I have searched TomTom for any traffic flow data and there appears to not be any.

tmanokc commented 1 week ago

The map disappearing may be due to an API key issue, a computer performance issue, or you might not be up to date with either browser or the latest emulator version.

I use the simulator via weatherscan.net on iPad, so Safari is up-to-date since I usually update iPadOS when or around the time the latest version is released.

TomTom’s Traffic Index website (https://www.tomtom.com/traffic-index/) does list travel times and speeds similar to those featured in the actual Traffic Flow segment, but they’re not specific to particular routes, rather they’re “based on trip data anonymously collected from drivers within the larger metropolitan area (“metro”) throughout the complete road network — including fast roads and highways crossing this area” and cover a per 6-mile average of the entire area.

Not sure if this helps, but Here.com has a flow feature in its API (https://www.here.com/docs/category/traffic-api-v7); it sounds similar to that in the TWC/WS IntelliStar feature.

Hello, to address the first issue, the impact does change, I have personally seen medium impact be used but it isn't too common, not everyday is there a fatal car crash nearby.

I haven’t seen “medium impact” tags so far. In the actual segment page, the “medium impact” tag was triggered for other incidents (including construction and other maintenance, disabled vehicles, and non-injury accidents blocking lanes).

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TheGoldDiamond9 commented 1 week ago

That api could be useful but there are just so many routes in the us it’d be hard to map each location to three routes each, same reason there’s no regional forecast map. And the impacts are decided based not eh api. If the api says the impact is high it will show high impact.