{"id":1785430,"date":"2018-04-20T09:59:52","date_gmt":"2018-04-20T13:59:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1785430"},"modified":"2018-04-20T09:59:52","modified_gmt":"2018-04-20T13:59:52","slug":"ottawa-city-councillor-wants-a-map-of-road-conditions-like-los-angeless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2018\/04\/ottawa-city-councillor-wants-a-map-of-road-conditions-like-los-angeless\/","title":{"rendered":"Ottawa City Councillor Wants a Map of Road Conditions Like Los Angeles’s"},"content":{"rendered":"

An Ottawa city councillor wants take a page out of Los Angeles’s playbook<\/a> and create a real-time interactive map of the city’s road conditions. L.A.’s street assessment map<\/a> rates road conditions as good, fair or poor. Since Ottawa’s roads are on balance between fair and poor, it might be revealing, if uncomfortable, to have all that road data easily accessible; at the moment it can only be accessed by asking city officials about the state of a given street.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An Ottawa city councillor wants take a page out of Los Angeles’s playbook and create a real-time interactive map of the city’s road conditions. L.A.’s street assessment map rates road conditions as good, fair or… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[114],"tags":[54,1056,357,193,610],"class_list":["post-1785430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-web-mapping","tag-cities","tag-los-angeles","tag-ottawa","tag-road-conditions","tag-roads","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1786195,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2018\/08\/new-ottawa-transit-map-goes-diagrammatic\/","url_meta":{"origin":1785430,"position":0},"title":"New Ottawa Transit Map Goes Diagrammatic","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"30 August 2018","format":"link","excerpt":"Last week OC Transpo, the City of Ottawa's transit service, unveiled a new network map (PDF) that shows the transit routes that will be in effect after the new LRT opens, which is (at the moment) scheduled to take place in November. 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