Incorporating tweets onto waze

by **The Fej** » Sun Jun 20, 2010 12:06 pm

In the upcoming version, waze will take Twitter integration a step further, as this version will feature geo-tagged tweets right on the waze map. This means that if someone tweets that they’re stuck in traffic, it will appear almost immediately on the waze map with a road report pin along with a little ‘t’ icon to indicate that the report came from Twitter. Incorporating tweets onto the waze is going to expand our coverage of real-time road events significantly, plus, the coolest part is that the Twitter integration functions two ways – once you input your Twitter details under ‘Settings’, you’ll be able to respond directly to tweets (on waze and Twitter, simultaneously) by commenting on the road report, turning waze, essentially, into an on-the-go Twitter client.

So what we need is traffic related tweeting services in the various states and/or countries that we can tap into them and add their relevant information. If you are aware of such services, please list them here in this thread and we'll check to see how to add them.

by **gerben** » Sun Jun 20, 2010 8:03 pm

A quick search for The Netherlands gave me:

http://twitter.com/anwbverkeer
http://twitter.com/verkeersdienst

Tweets about traffic on specific freeways:

http://twitter.com/filea#

Were # is the freeway number.

List of Dutch freeways:

http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lijst_van_ ... osnelwegen

It would have been great if there are GPS-tagged tweets, but unfortunately none of the link provide those.

by **petervdveen** » Sun Jun 20, 2010 8:07 pm

by **svache** » Mon Jun 21, 2010 4:57 am

Here are a couple of them who tweet about traffic in Hawaii:

http://twitter.com/dt808traffic
http://twitter.com/AM940
http://twitter.com/Krater96
http://twitter.com/hawaiian105kine

Kind of wonder how you will incorporate them into Waze though, and how you will have them post the announcement on the right spot, I kind of don't see how as the tweets are, imho, a bit too vague for that.

Wouldn't it be better to use something like the following?
http://www4.honolulu.gov/hpdtraffic/
that one gives full information, what happened, where exactly and so on... kind of wonder where they pull the data from though..

Or here's another one also that could perhaps be used for the US, less informative but oh well:
http://www.beatthetraffic.com/mobile/index.aspx

by **The Fej** » Mon Jun 21, 2010 7:29 am

Overall, we are looking for geo-tagged twits since they are the easiest to attach to the map. This is an experiment and we will see how it behaves and adjust once we can more experiance.
Having a general location (which we might not have in the map) or using commercial sites is not planned as it will necessitate a lot of post processing that for time being we want to avoid.

by **svache** » Mon Jun 21, 2010 10:25 am

I agree, geotagged ones are a lot easier, but also a lot harder to come by I think.. but yeah, then I understand better how you guys want to implement it all.. it kinda seemed so generic lol

by **noodlesnz** » Tue Jun 22, 2010 3:52 am

NZ traffic feeds:

http://twitter.com/aa_traffic
http://twitter.com/TSTraffic

I'm not sure if they're geo'ed though

by **rcocchiararo** » Thu Jun 24, 2010 11:51 pm

Argentina:

http://twitter.com/traficobsas

by **gibby71** » Sat Jun 26, 2010 1:28 pm

Chicago:

http://twitter.com/ChicagoDrives

by **svache** » Tue Jun 29, 2010 4:27 am

Found one more for Oahu, Hawaii which might be of help:

http://twitter.com/ktlink

if you ask me, this one should be a lot better than the previous ones I posted

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