Scrape Waze Live Map for incident Data

[banjtheman]

What is the Task

Create a script that can scrape data from Waze Live map
https://www.waze.com/live-map/

We are interested in the hazard data, road closures, and police activity

Why do we want to do this

Waze has very good up-to-date information but doesn't provide a nice API, so we must scrape instead.

How can I get started?

How can we start this task?

This script is a good starting point, we will want to scrape for the dc area
https://gist.github.com/jossef/1a6c523f99318286bb1f05efd77fcc9e

Definition of Done

Have script that can collect data from Waze

[banjtheman]

Notes:
Theo has some code to start this

[CharlotteJackson]

Done! This is in branch extract_audio_transcriptions. Will merge it in a day or two. It's being scraped and loaded into the database every 20 minutes