From Harford County Government:
BEL AIR, Md., (Jan. 22, 2015) – When snow and ice hit Harford County, Harford County plows hit back, clearing county roads to help our citizens get rolling. Now, the public can track plows in major storms with a new snow plow tracking service developed by Harford County government.
“As my incoming administration asks how we can help our customers, the citizens of Harford County, I am pleased to offer this service for folks to see where our county plows are hard at work. I also want to thank our dedicated employees who advanced my initiative improving service to the public through technology,” Mr. Glassman said.
Activated only during major weather events, the Harford County Snow Plow Tracker works on a computer, smartphone, or tablet device, showing where on the county map the plows have been, and more importantly, where they are now. The color-coded map updates information every 15 minutes.
The Harford County Snow Plow Tracker was developed in-house based on GPS technology used to track county trucks. The county service does not track plows on state or municipal roadways.
To access the service, go to the Harford County government website www.harfordcountymd.gov and find the blue and green snow plow icon with the motto “Working Till the Plows Come Home!” Falling snow will appear in the icon when the service is activated for a major weather event.
Click the icon anytime to access the service map and a tutorial video, or go directly to the Web page http://apps.harfordcountymd.gov/SnowPlowTracker and be prepared for the next big storm, courtesy of Harford County government.
Stay safe in winter weather. Access more information about snow removal and snow events on the county Web page: http://www.harfordcountymd.gov/alerts/SnowRemoval.cfm.
Excellent!
Put that same GPS system in the entire harford county fleet of vehicles and watch the fun.
Barry Glassman would go down in history for solving the age old question…. What the hell is that county vehicle doing there?
Eat another another pork rhind, gomer and adjust your tinfoil.
GPS has been on the “fleet” for years.
My advice, comment only what you know, which is no doubt, not that much. Even a casual observer could have seen a GPS anetnna installed on the cab of a county vehicle for as much as you stalk.
Exterior antenna’s haven’t been needed on vehicle GPS for over a decade bozo.
http://www.brickhousesecurity.com/category/gps+tracking/gps+vehicle+tracking+governments+municipalities.do
Never mind, I was wrong. I apologize for calling you a bozo.
Helping the less “common sense folks” to see where and how soon they can leave their area for items/errands that could have been taken care of before hand. GOD FORBID the driver/operator stops to eat, pee, fuel or shift change. “911” will BE FLOODED with calls! GREAT CALL Glassman!
What does this mean. Does the new Executive really speak this way: “I also want to thank our dedicated employees who advanced my initiative improving service to the public through technology,” Mr. Glassman said.
You don’t need gps, just connect wawa’s parking lot cameras to parking lot cams so the public can access and you will see where all the county vehicles are.
Excellent information, this should have been done years ago.
Of course, the peanut gallery of paranoid delusional middle aged white males come out of the woodwork that don’t know much.
All County Vehicles have had GPS for years. They’re all on there, take a look for yourself. You can see them as you stand there, gawking, with your mouth open.
Great now Jim can just sit in his basement and track in real time how many plowshare doing their best public service clearing the Wawa lots.
Not as long as I can get a sizzli and any size coffee for $2.99 🙂
Half off if you know the magic words…
“Map Last Updated: Jan 26 2015 10:36AM Refresh Page | Tutorial | Snow Info
Harford County is not currently experiencing a snow event. Thank you for visiting Snow Plow Tracking.”
hahahahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!
There are no roads to plow when there is no snow on the road.
I don’t know what people were expecting? Blinking dots on google maps of every snowplow truck? I saw them updating this morning, some roads were green, others were yellow, some were red, and State and private roads were grey.
Ahhh hah hahahahah (??
It’s obvious around 1030 hours or so significant plow operations stopped, as obvious, the roads were just wet.
Ahh hahahahahaha (weird)
Harford County is not currently experiencing a snow event
Oh yeah, you sure got them there. Oh man, what are you going to do about it? Oh, thats right, nothing.
Maybe you could like, complain to the IT department for them to specifically mention what each square mile of Harford County roads are facing 24/7365 (weather wise.)
My guess its random generic text to suggest snowplows aren’t being “tracked” whereas when they are availabe for the public to see the color coded road plow status, the text will read “Experiencing a snow event”
Hahahhah hahaha
The website still shows 1/26 no snow event. Anyone have it working or is it groundhog day again, again, again…….
It’s always Hog day up at Hickory Jims DPW. But yeah every time I log in its never working. It was a good PR move for Baaaarry though.
The plow that went up my street today musta been operatin in stealth mode.
Plow .250″ of snow? Unlikely.
Most likely just checking conditions of roads, salt if needed.
People are (largely) inept. This service is (obviously) designed for when a “substantial” snow event occurs that has a lot of “plow” trucks out.
The software isn’t some wet dream to track every dump, and pickup truck when only 1st shift crews are the ones working just checking out the roads if anywhere needs a little salt.
Of course, middle aged white males who have nothing better to do than buy more tinfoil and complain their miserable life away worrying about others comment all the time.
Hit “reply” and “tell me how it is” I really care.
Oh there was no mestaken the sound of that plow grinding away on the road. But he probly wasn’t actually plowing that’s why he had his plow down on the road plowing. Heck he probly wasn’t even getting paid at the time eider.
Tanx fer clering that up.
Harford County DPW? SHA? Contractor?
Whatever you say, it is the internet. You win, you are smarter than me.
County truck otta the place behind poes in cuptown. I new I was smarter den you.
Maybe the site is down because it broke after it was overwhelmed with all the GPS hits at local Wawas.?
Oh please.
I have it on good authority that Harford County road crews prefer Royal Farm’s chicken to WaWa’s 5:1.
Every worker knows WAWA don’t have no fried chicken.
Still not working.