Let’s Map Traffic Incidents… Again / / No Comments This blog has been around for a while (twenty one years currently) so it isn’t too uncommon for me to revisit old topics and demos and rebuild them. I think today’s post may be something of an outlier though. Way back in 2010, early 2010, I built a Proof of Content 911 Viewer that wrapped a local police department’s web site, lafayette911.org. Note the cute disclaimer at the bottom of the site saying you have to ask permission to link to it. Tell me you don’t know how the internet works without telling me you don’t know how it works. Anyway, back in 2010 I used Yahoo Pipes (pour one out for a cool as heck web service) to scrape the data and store it in a database.... more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: Again, Incidents, Lets, Traffic
Using Netlify Edge and Blob Support to Investigate Website Traffic / / No Comments For some time now, I’ve relied on my Netlify Analytics report to keep track of how well my site is doing, what content is popular, and so forth. I was a Google Analytics user for over ten years, but when they updated the UI, I saw red every time I tried to use it. Netlify Analytics is super simple and quick. (My only real complaint is that it’s limited to 30 days, but I’ve got free access to the feature so I’m happy to not care about that.) I complement Netlify Analytics with GoatCounter as well. Netify’s analytics show much more traffic than Goat, and I figure the truth is somewhere in the middle, and again, I’m fine with that. What’s odd though is that... more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: Blob, Edge, Investigate, Netlify, Support, Traffic, using, Website
24 Hours of Ship Traffic in the Bay / / No Comments Every day hundreds of container ships, high speed ferries, and pleasure boats navigate the San Francisco Bay. The job of orchestrating much of this marine traffic falls to the Coast Guard’s vessel traffic service, based on Yerba Buena Island. You can get a great idea of what this job entails on Mapbox’s interactive map Ships in the San Francisco Bay.Ships in the San Francisco Bay animates 24 Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: hours, ship, Traffic
How to report traffic incidents, hazards, and speed checks in Apple Maps on your iPhone – Business Insider / / No Comments How to report traffic incidents, hazards, and speed checks in Apple Maps on your iPhone Business Insider “map app” – Google News… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: Apple, Business, checks, hazards, Incidents, Insider, iPhone, maps, Report, speed, Traffic
Volume of traffic sparks map app call – Otago Daily Times / / No Comments Volume of traffic sparks map app call Otago Daily Times “map app” – Google News… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: call, Daily, Otago, sparks, Times, Traffic, Volume
Drivers will beat traffic jams through new app which maps UK’s most … – Telegraph.co.uk / / No Comments Telegraph.co.uk Drivers will beat traffic jams through new app which maps UK's most …Telegraph.co.ukThe Government is promising to help motorists avoid traffic jams in the future by investing millions of pounds in a new mapping system.and more » map app – Google News… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: beat, drivers, jams, maps, most, Telegraph.co.uk, through, Traffic, UK's
For the Good of Society — and Traffic! — Delete Your Map App – New York Magazine / / No Comments New York Magazine For the Good of Society — and Traffic! — Delete Your Map AppNew York MagazineI live on an obnoxiously quaint block in South Berkeley, California, lined with trees and two-story houses. There's a constant stream of sidewalk joggers before and after work, and plenty of (good) dogs in the yards. Trick-or-treaters from distant … map app – Google News… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: Delete, GOOD, Magazine, Society, Traffic, York
How Google Maps Gets Its Remarkably Accurate Real-Time Traffic Data – NDTV / / No Comments NDTV How Google Maps Gets Its Remarkably Accurate Real-Time Traffic DataNDTVGoogle Maps is one of the most popular apps in the world, with well over a billion users. Google collects its mapping data from a wide variety of sources including road sensors, user contributions via Map Maker, and local transport departments, among …and more » map app – Google News… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: Accurate, data, Gets, Google, maps, NDTV, realtime, Remarkably, Traffic