MTO Traffic data in Onatrio, Canada
August 17, 2009 – 2:52 pm
Ontario Ministry of Transportation provides traffic data in various formats:
- Construction Reports
- Traffic Flow Reports
- Live Traffic Cameras
- Road Closure Announcements
All that data can be found in the online TRIP (http://www.mto.gov.on.ca/english/traveller/trip/) and COMPASS (http://www.mto.gov.on.ca/english/traveller/trip/traffic_cameras.shtml ) systems.
The following page provides KML files from MTO with the most updated information about the traffic that can be nicely overlayed on top of the Google Maps:
http://www.mto.gov.on.ca/kml/indexfiles.php
The 2 suggested ones are:
Grab any of the links and paste it simpley into Google Maps. All the marks and POIs will be displayed in your browser:
MTO data in Google Maps
In a case you’d like to integrate this data programatically into your application, use the following URL:
http://www.mto.gov.on.ca/english/traveller/compass/trip/events.xml
It provides an XML database of all events in the system that can be parsed and filtered as needed.
