have you heard about google's death bridge?

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sex excellence: Feb 19, 2011; Satisfaction Guranteed

you don't get how tiring it is to set that stuff up... people don't think about me having to check that the barrier lights are still on and the barricade itself is intact every month... it isn't just set it and forget... nobody understands what we highway dept folks have to deal with on a daily basis.. smdh

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sex excellence: Feb 19, 2011; Satisfaction Guranteed

frumpykvetchbot posted:

I don't know about random unincorporated hamlets but cities generally have some form of central authority managing a GIS database that all public works, property and road management etc plug in to. And Google has APIs that let municipalities publish their updates directly. Google also subscribes to a variety of map update channels used by state administrations. Road closures can be reported through this interface and within minutes it shows up correctly on the map. It works well and it's in use by cities all over the world.

*sigh*

it's really hard to use ArcGIS and keep it updated.. the dept is absolutely swamped with literal swamp work and adding these bridges is just really really tough and complicated this is just another example of people thinking that it would have been so easy to prevent this..

# ¿ Sep 23, 2023 19:59

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