Traffic Messages in APRS Map Service

The Norwegian Public Roads Administration has an extensive system for, among other things, road messages. This is information about road closures, accidents, roadworks as well. This is open data that is published in a perhaps slightly difficult format, DATEX. Now we have finally integrated this into the NRRL's map service.

The map service has a menu with different display modes. Here it is possible to select "Road announcements (Datex)". The position of road signs of all types is then displayed. Click on the icon to see more information about time slots and text that has been posted. Messages have three levels of severity: low, high and highest. If you select the display mode "Tracking", only "high" and "highest" are displayed together with other information from APRS as well as AIS information from Hurtigruta and the like. The system also allows you to view images from the road authorities' webcam.

NRRL members can, if they wish, get a user account at https://aprs.no/

It gives access to a little more info (including AIS from the Coastal Administration), and the possibility to edit and save some information about map layers and the like. The map service is an advanced tool and although APRS is the main function, it can do much more.