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The District Plows Tonight

Thursday, January 2, 2014
It will surprise no one in Vermont if I say it's cold tonight.
So I'm indoors, and bemused to note that it's also snowing down in the nation's capital, where such things tend to bring out the crazy in the more troglodyte-like elected representatives.

On the fun side, during the last storm in D.C. Jeremy Bowers of NPR wrote a handy script ("Mister Plow") to scrape location data for the city's plow fleet and offer it up as a live feed. Since this sort of screamed for a map, I built one, and now it can serve for this storm:



It's lacking a good temporal symbology, but it'll do to see if the plow has been by your street recently. The mechanism is Leaflet, Mapbox Satellite, and a dose of PHP to parse the feed. Grab it here if you dare.

I FOUND THEIR NEST! DEAR GOD, THE PLOWS ARE SWARMING!

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