Happy New Year

Whew...at last! We're set to close the book on 2009 and over the past couple of days, I'm closing the book on my latest update. I've (finally!) got the KDOT cameras added to the fray and have added/tweaked others too. Thanks for your patience on this!

On the right hand part of the page, scroll down until you see "kscambat.txt" and "kscampf.txt".

Since a few of the KDOT cameras are co-located with each other (i.e. @ Walker along I-70) I've kept a handful of them out of the scripts. Otherwise, don't be surprised to see a few of them down from time to time. It just happens with technology.

An interesting stat: we're up to 91 cameras now officially in my scripts! That's quite an improvement since the project began in late summer 2006. Hopefully, we'll add a few more in the coming year.

If I have any New Year's resolution concerning this blog, it would be to update it more often. And that's what I'll try to do. From the GRLevel3Geek: Happy New Year!

Stuff in the Queue

I was very excited to learn that KDOT has finally made available 25 new web cameras along I-70. This information is available on their website . I'm quite busy with a number of projects at home and at work, so I'll be working on adding this data to the web cam project as time allows. I'd like to turn it around faster but I'm afraid that won't happen.

Stay tuned for more updates...

Major Housecleaning

It had been a few weeks since I went though the entire list of Kansas camera sites and I was disappointed to see so many cameras down (16). It's not uncommon to see some of the school sites down during the summer as there's nobody at the school on a regular basis. But it wasn't just some school sites though. I did a little house cleaning and got things back in order.

Unfortunately, I have no new cameras to add. I did my usual search with Google for "Kansas web cams" and "Kansas construction cams"....even used the new site "bing.com" that I've seen advertised. No luck. I think I've pretty much given up on KDOT getting their site up anytime soon. Hopefully they will prove me wrong. It's a downer when they advertised it coming on-line "early First Quarter 2009" and we're just into 3Q now.

No News is Bad News

I wish I had some great excuse to explain the lack of updates recently but I don't. Besides work, I honestly haven't spent as much time on the computer. That's not a bad thing though as the weather has been so nice here over the last couple of weeks, only turning active in Kansas today after 4 days of 90 degree weather.

I haven't located any new cameras recently with my typical Google searches on the web. And I'm not holding my breath on updates from KDOT concerning their web cameras they've been promising since the first quarter of 2009. They keep saying they're working on problems with their page but so far nothing new from their camp.

Something new

I managed to get an update to the Kansas scripts yesterday to fix some broken links and the like.

Still nothin' from KDOT. (sigh)

No foolin'....some updates!

It was a rather crazy month of March at work, as I changed shifts for a few weeks while we trained on a completely new weather system. Needless to say, I had little time for extra stuff.

Thankfully, the new system has debuted and I'm back on my normal shift. With that, I'm happy to report some updates to the Kansas scripts this afternoon. I added one new camera, an old one returned and I weeded out some non-functional cameras.

Still waiting on KDOT though...no updates on their situation.

You want new cameras?

I learned recently from KDOT that their new cameras won't be ready until further notice as they continue to tackle some unresolved issues. I really hope they are up before severe weather starts to kick in big time!

While that's a bummer, I'm happy to report a couple of new cameras, one in Dodge City and in Independence. Plus, I found some older cameras have returned so I made a pretty sizable update to the Kansas camera scripts today. I've tested them and so far everything seems OK. Please report any problems though as I hurried like hell to get them done before shoving off to work today!

I know..I'm running behind

Sorry GRLevel3Geek followers...I'm way behind on updates. I've been a little busy with family commitments as we had a death in the family earlier this month.

I promise I'll have some new updates here soon...just wanted you know why things haven't been posted recently.

Have a good weekend,
Rodney

We've got a Mission

Who knew hanging out in the crawl space and on the roof of my house could be so much fun?! I've been pretty busy the last few days installing cables and the like for my nearly-completed "shack", as in a "radio shack". I've been an amateur radio operator since 1992 . But even with that on my plate and family stuff, I have managed to do some major detective work too concerning web cameras across Kansas.

I stumbled across the "Kansas Communities on the Web" site earlier this week. It's like me--not particularly flashy--but it gets right to the point: providing links to the majority of Kansas communities on the web. So, like the Little Einsteins, I was on a mission: to search for new web cameras possibly located on each city's web page. The tedious work paid off: I found a camera at the Eisenhower Center in Abilene and one in Derby where a new library is being built. In addition, I found a camera in Haysville too. Unfortunately, it hasn't updated in over a month.

Time permitting, I will be adding the cameras to the scripts. I have already jotted down the coordinates via Google Earth.

More good news on the camera front. KDOT is still good to go for an "early 2009" debut of 25 additional web cameras along I-70. It would be great to get them before the end of the month...fingers crossed.