Ottawa Traffic Cams 1.9

Ottawa Traffic Cams is a Konfabulator Widget that displays the still images supplied by the Ontario Ministry of Transport (MoT) COMPAS Traffic Cameras web site for Highway 417. Highway 417, also known as The Queensway, is the main east-west traffic artery for Ottawa, Canada’s capital city. The MoT currently uses eleven cameras on Highway 417.

The Ottawa Traffic Cams Widget accesses each camera in sequence from east to west.

Now you can view and monitor the traffic right from in front of your computer.


Ottawa Traffic Cams Widget display options include Ottawa weather and best Ottawa-area gas price

Preference settings control how long each image is shown before advancing to the next traffic camera.

The Ottawa Traffic Cams Konfabulator widget can automatically advance to the next traffic image every 10, 15, 30, 60, 90 or 120 seconds. (Note that image updates occur at the MoT source every three to five minutes.)

If you wish to view current Ottawa weather conditions, there are preference options to show the temperature on the image and detailed weather information in the tooltip.

If Ottawa gas prices interest you, a preferences option shows the best local gas price as reported by OttawaGasPrices.com. (Gas prices are in cents per liter.)

If weather or gas price info is selected, the latest data will be retrieved whenever you ‘save’ the widget preferences.

Local Ottawa weather data, obtained from the NOAA weather service or Environment Canada, is from the Ottawa International Airport.

As the gas prices assembled by OttawaGasPrices.com are provided by often anonymous volunteers, there is no guarantee of the veracity of any of the data.

The site owners make no warranties for accuracy of prices, and neither do I.