Roadwork Tool
Hi,
I would like to introduce you a new tool. I presented it during the EMEA meetup 2022.
It is not an addon or even a website (because I don't like web development) but a desktop software.
My goal was to provide support to editors doing road closure in Waze.
Many of them use Opendata ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_data ). Opendata are published by municipalities, government, road operators and can contains various information. The information that I was interested in are road closure.
The problem of Opendata is that everytime you get the data you get everything and it is hard to track changes.
My tool is here to help you with that.
It will connect to Opendata services and show you the roadworks on a map. Then you click on them and will read information and eventually open WME permalink (there is a button for that). Then you can set a status (done, later, ignored, treated, finished). The app will remember that status for the next time you will reload the data.
It currently supports 8 cities (most in France as I am french), but it is easy to support more cities even for a non developper.
The whole project is Opensource under Apache Licence 2.0 written in Java.
You can get it here https://github.com/kpouer/Roadwork
https://github.com/kpouer/Roadwork/raw/ ... enshot.jpg
Currently it is packaged for Windows (but it can easily run on Mac and Linux, contact me if you have any problem, I know I have to work on packaging).
I am open to any suggestion or idea, or bug report (the app is very new).
The most important for me would be to add support to many more cities and countries. And it is here that I need your help.
Finding opendata services is not easy, but integrating them is not a problem when they are found.
So if you know some sources I could add, I would be glad to do it.
For example in the case of Paris it looks like this : https://opendata.paris.fr/explore/datas ... ive.statut
I can support almost any json format, but adding other format such as XML or CSV would not be a problem.
What is important is that all roadworks described should contains coordinates, start and end date, then a description of the impact (like road closed) so the editor knows what to do.
I have a limitation, it is running on ROW tile server, but if you find some opendata services in USA or Israel, I will be happy to integrate them and find a solution to support US and IL tile servers.
Also I planned to add a synchronization server in order to allow team members to synchronize their work, but it is not yet available or even tested.
I would like to introduce you a new tool. I presented it during the EMEA meetup 2022.
It is not an addon or even a website (because I don't like web development) but a desktop software.
My goal was to provide support to editors doing road closure in Waze.
Many of them use Opendata ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_data ). Opendata are published by municipalities, government, road operators and can contains various information. The information that I was interested in are road closure.
The problem of Opendata is that everytime you get the data you get everything and it is hard to track changes.
My tool is here to help you with that.
It will connect to Opendata services and show you the roadworks on a map. Then you click on them and will read information and eventually open WME permalink (there is a button for that). Then you can set a status (done, later, ignored, treated, finished). The app will remember that status for the next time you will reload the data.
It currently supports 8 cities (most in France as I am french), but it is easy to support more cities even for a non developper.
The whole project is Opensource under Apache Licence 2.0 written in Java.
You can get it here https://github.com/kpouer/Roadwork
https://github.com/kpouer/Roadwork/raw/ ... enshot.jpg
Currently it is packaged for Windows (but it can easily run on Mac and Linux, contact me if you have any problem, I know I have to work on packaging).
I am open to any suggestion or idea, or bug report (the app is very new).
The most important for me would be to add support to many more cities and countries. And it is here that I need your help.
Finding opendata services is not easy, but integrating them is not a problem when they are found.
So if you know some sources I could add, I would be glad to do it.
For example in the case of Paris it looks like this : https://opendata.paris.fr/explore/datas ... ive.statut
I can support almost any json format, but adding other format such as XML or CSV would not be a problem.
What is important is that all roadworks described should contains coordinates, start and end date, then a description of the impact (like road closed) so the editor knows what to do.
I have a limitation, it is running on ROW tile server, but if you find some opendata services in USA or Israel, I will be happy to integrate them and find a solution to support US and IL tile servers.
Also I planned to add a synchronization server in order to allow team members to synchronize their work, but it is not yet available or even tested.
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