Just recently I mentioned to some friends the Buckeye Traffic website and they were totally surprised such a service existed.  Its a State of Ohio, Department of Transportation website which overlays the state’s traffic cameras on a Microsoft visual Earth map.  Its not pictured below but there are a series of options to select various areas of the state, zoom in and out, select warnings and notifications, but most importantly open a link to a live feed (image snapshots) from specific cameras on the state’s highways.  This is what is pictured below. Clicking on a purple camera icon will open a dialogue box with the most recent picture from that camera. At times it can be hard to tell the orientation of the camera, which cardinal direction its pointing but a quick observation of where the sun’s position is should be a good indicator.  So far on a day  like today, where OSU is closed and most of the city is on a delay or shutdown its a totally handy tool.

Now its time to go shovel the driveway. :(