

The Caltrans QuickMap was developed by the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans), and presents traveler information via a web interface to travelers within the state. The final report includes illustrations of the maps. All of these layers were developed as KML feeds, which were deployed to prototype and production systems, and maintained throughout the time period covered by this contract. The relevant forecast weather layers were: Air Temperature, Wind Speed, Wind Gust Speed, Humidity, Sky Cover, 12-Hour Chance of Precipitation, 6-Hour Precipitation, Snow, and Weather. The relevant current weather layers in the WSRTC OSS were: Air Temperature, Relative Humidity, 1 Hour Precipitation, 24 Hour Precipitation, Advanced Hydrological Prediction Service 24 Hour Precipitation, and Wind. Since layers in QuickMap were presented using Keyhole Markup Language (KML), it was desirable that these weather layers also be presented via KML so that they would be be readily usable.


The focus of this project was to develop, for display in QuickMap, weather layers similar to those shown in the Western States Rural Transportation Consortium (WSRTC) One-Stop-Shop (OSS).
