Live traffic travel time tile

[Nickb1907]

I was wondering if anyone has created a tile with the travel time to work. I am wondering if this is possible in Sharptools.

Posting this for reference:

Live Traffic travel time Tile! Image from query text using … / ActionTiles...

[josh]

Yes, we’ve seen people use Shields.io for pulling in data from external sources like WebCoRE, stocks, etc.

The main concept is to use Shields.io to create an image which works great with the SharpTools.io Media Tile.

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Edit

For anyone who finds this post via search, here’s a Commute Time generator another user put together:

Commute time Map tile generator

Hey everyone! I made a utility to generate a map tile that shows your commute time and updates on a set interval. It uses the Google Maps API so you’ll need an API key. Example [image] Hope it’s helpful!