How to get California Highway Patrol Computer Aided Dispatch Updates via Twitter

If you commute regularly knowing when and where you’re going to hit traffic is a life saver. We’re lucky enough to live in a state that went broke producing things like the CHP Traffic Incident Information Page. Until now this information was completely web based, rendering it useless to people on the go. That’s why I created the CHP CAD (computer aided dispatch) Twitter bot: http://twitter.com/chpcad


This FAQ is a work in progress, please email me if you have any questions that aren’t answered here..
FAQ

  1. I get an error when I click on the links.

    2. When clicking on the links included with each tweet you may encounter this error:

    Microsoft VBScript runtime  error '800a01a8'
Object required: 'rsD'
/iiqr.asp, line 60

    This is caused by the CHP CAD website requiring a cookie before showing live CHP CAD data. To receive this cookie first visit the CHP CAD website, then reload the link from the tweet.

  2. How do i get updates to my phone?

    3. Log into twitter and browse to the chpcad twitter feed.
    mobile follow
    Also visit the Twitter Phone FAQ.

  3. Can I filter the feed to specific areas?

    4. Right now there’s no way to filter tweets from the primary chpcad bot, but there is an area specific bot for san francisco: http://twitter.com/chpcad_sf (for my friends in LA, an LA bot is in the works: http://twitter.com/chpcad_la)

  4. How as this bot created?

    5. Lots of coffee.

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3 Comments

  1. Very awesome GBA.

  2. Very cool, can you narrow it down further like the filters on the CHP CAD site? I am in Pleasanton, I don’t really care about a flat tire in Petaluma

  3. looks like it’s not updating anymore… last update was Sept 15th


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