Scottish Road Works On-line Google Maps mashup

Scottish Road Works On-line allows you to zoom in to a particular location to see what disruption is in your area’s roads. Alternatively, you can search by postcode or by date. Furthermore, roadworks are ranked as high, medium or low impact.

This has been set up by The Scottish Road Works Commissioner, and is a great example of how web 2.0 tools can be used to make information easily accessible. Full marks.

Hat tip to Richard McKay who posted about this on Twitter.

I built it using Google Custom Search Engine, which is a pretty nifty tool that lets you create a search engine that produces results from a selected set of websites. Dave Briggs suggested this following the success of LGSearch, which searches government websites in the UK.

At the moment Scotweb2 Search includes the websites of the Scottish Government, the Scottish Parliament, the Scotland Office and the 32 local councils in Scotland. In time, I plan to extend it so that it includes other Scottish public sector organisations. If you have any suggestions for the sort of websites that should be included, please feel free to leave a comment on this post or send us an email.

Scotweb2 Search