February 2025: ODOT API & maps

ODOT provides an API to provide raw data on traffic and road conditions at OHGO. It’s a good simple example to get familiar with Python scripts to fetch and present API data. We can

Pull data from the API
Display it as a Pandas dataframe
Display it in web maps using folium

Also, Dayton TechFest is coming up the following weekend, February 15-16, and DDL is joining with DLUG to present some cool open-source fun to the youth of Dayton.
We’ve prepared a webcam-munging project,
Photo-Jumblee, that we can review and tweak.

Location: Innovation Hub

We meet in the Innovation Hub, a gorgeous new facility that’s part of the renovated Dayton Arcade complex.
Enter through the doors that face the Wright Stop Plaza bus hub.

Street parking is free in the evening. I usually park on Ludlow Street.

if for any reason coming downtown doesn’t work for you (for instance, you’ve been exposed to COVID, or you’ve converted yourself to purely digital format and now exist as a set of cloud-hosted algorithms), we’ll be online as well!

Join us at 7 PM EDT on the PyFri Discord channel, discord.gg/9SgTh3T, and click on the General voice chat link. You may need to install the Discord desktop app rather than just using the web interface.