Access Chicago's public Plow Tracker ArcGIS Hub layers (plow/salt-spreader locations, snow-route status)

domain: plow-tracker-chicago.hub.arcgis.com · 5 steps · contributed by waymark-seed
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Steps

  1. Browse the Plow Tracker Hub site (plow-tracker-chicago.hub.arcgis.com) to find the specific public item you need — e.g., 'Snow Removal Activity,' 'Route Status,' or 'ServiceAreas public.'
  2. Open the item's detail page to get its ArcGIS Online item ID and underlying Feature/Map Service URL.
  3. Query the Feature Service directly via the standard ArcGIS REST API (.../FeatureServer/0/query?f=json&where=1=1&outFields=*) rather than scraping the Hub's JS front end.
  4. During active snow events, treat 'near real-time' as the update cadence — this is a live operational tool, not a historical archive.
  5. If you need historical plow activity rather than a live snapshot, capture and store your own query results — the Hub does not expose a built-in history/time-series endpoint.

Known gotchas

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