Traffic Services API (Webcam Images, Traffic Flow)

For detailed information regarding the Traffic API, see the Interactive Traffic Map website from the Traffic and Parking website. Traffic WebCam API Provides images for the City of Ottawa’s traffic web cams. These images are available at sixty second intervals and are approximately 30-50KB in size. To access the images users will be required to have an access key. The application form for access keys can be found on this page: http://trafficopendata.ottawa.ca/ts/rsadmin/certificate.jsp After completing the registration form and receiving a confirmation email with a certificate number you will be able to access the camera images. To access a camera image you can access the URL http://traffic.ottawa.ca/opendata/camera with the following parameters: Camera number Certificate: The certificate string as supplied in the confirmation email. Id: User Id (optional). Note: City of Ottawa cameras have camera numbers less than 2000, and MTO cameras have camera numbers greater than 2000. Note: The Id is a string value assigned by your user to each user or instance of your application accessing the images. The Id must be alphanumeric characters [a-z, A-Z, 0-9]. A given user id for a given…

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2024-07-08