See the Road Ahead with Traffic Camera Images on Bing Maps
From the post:
The Bing Maps Routing and Traffic Team is constantly working to make navigation and route planning easier! Hot on the heels of our previous announcement about traffic coloring, the Bing Maps team is proud to announce that we have made it possible for users to access traffic camera images along a planned driving route! You can now see traffic camera icons along a short to moderate-length route. By clicking on a traffic camera icon, you can view the latest image from the traffic camera at that location.
Bing Maps with traffic cameras:
- Enable real time routing of “breakdowns” for maximum impact
- Monitor highways for enhancement of unplanned blockages
- Support live tweeting/messaging/blogging of highway conditions
Access to traffic cams is not news but Bing is making them easy for casual users. The more users, the more noise and the safer you will be accessing traffic cams for your purposes.
Assuming the worst outcome in the 2021 presidential elections, you may want to consult Defeating Police Formations – Parallel Distributed Protesting, a post that I badly need to re-write. The lesson there is one of stopping cars on the Beltway around Washington, D.C., to effectively interrupt any inaguration ceremony. Traffic cams and management of “breakdowns” go hand in hand.
If you want to ineffectively interrupt any inaguration ceremony, mug for the press cameras at subways entrances. Your call.