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TravelMidwest Coverage Area Changes -- 5/16/2022

The Travel Midwest website has an updated geographic coverage area. This change reflects the fact that our neighboring states have their own Traveler Information/511 systems, and therefore support of a multi-state traveler information system is no longer necessary. This change will allow us to better focus our resources on Illinois and the immediately surrounding area in order to improve traveler information and traffic operations.

The following map shows the old coverage areas of TravelMidwest.com and the new coverage areas.

Old Coverage Areas	New Coverage Areas

Please review the following sections on the new boundary area, and additional resources which cover the areas which will no longer be served by TravelMidwest.com.

State	Counties Covered in New Map	Counties No Longer Covered	511 websites
Illinois	All 102 counties
Indiana	Benton, Boone, Clay, Clinton, Fountain, Gibson, Hendricks, Jasper, Knox, La Porte, Lake, Marion, Montgomery, Morgan, Newton, Parke, Porter, Posey, Putnam, St Joseph, Sullivan, Tippecanoe, Vermillion, Vigo, Warren, and White	Elkhart, LaGrange, and Steuben	https://indot.carsprogram.org/
Iowa	Clinton, Des Moines, Dubuque, Jackson, Lee, Louisa, Muscatine, and Scott	Cedar, Iowa, Jasper, Johnson, Polk, and Poweshiek	https://511ia.org/
Kentucky**	Ballard, Crittenden, Livingston, Marshall, McCracken, and Union		https://kytc.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html
Michigan	Berrien	Allegan, Barry, Branch, Calhoun, Cass, Clinton, Eaton, Genesee, Hillsdale, Ingham, Ionia, Jackson, Lenawee, Kalamazoo, Kent, Lapeer, Livingston, Macomb, Monroe, Muskegon, Oakland, Ottawa, Shiawassee, St. Clair, St. Joseph, Van Buren, Washtenaw, and Wayne	https://mdotjboss.state.mi.us/MiDrive/map
Minnesota		Anoka, Chisago, Dakota, Hennepin, Ramsey, Scott, Stearns, Washington, and Wright	https://511mn.org/
Missouri	Cape Girardeau, Clark, Jefferson, Lincoln, Lewis, Marion, Mississippi, Perry, Pike, Ralls, St. Charles, St Genevieve, St. Louis, St. Louis City, and Scott	Franklin and Warren	https://traveler.modot.org/map/
Ohio		Fulton, Williams, Paulding, Wood, Lucas, Defiance, Sandusky, Ottawa, and Henry	https://www.ohgo.com/
Wisconsin	Dane, Grant, Green, Jefferson, Kenosha, Lafayette, Milwaukee, Racine, Rock, Sauk, Walworth, and Waukesha	Columbia, Dunn, Eau Claire, Jackson, Juneau, La rosse, Monroe, Ozaukee, Sauk, St. Croix, Trempealeau, and Washington	https://511wi.gov/
** New

Detailed information on the updated TravelMidwest.com coverage area change can be found here .

Please contact webmaster@travelmidwest.com with any concerns or questions regarding the above.ï»¿

4/14/2022 4:12 PM (Updated 5/19/2022 7:32 AM)

Travel Midwest Enhancement

The existing map is being replaced with a modern mapping system called Open Street Map. The new map will support all the old URL's (i.e. this Chicago Area map) and supports a number of new features:

Tiling for better performance - the background map image is broken up into smaller sized tiles that can be individually cached. The smaller images are optimized for quick transmission through content delivery networks.
Clickable dynamic data - the mouse cursor icon changes shape to a hand pointer when it is hovered over a clickable dynamic map element such as a camera, dynamic message sign, weather station, travel time, event, or congestion link. Clicking on one of these items brings up a pop-up centered near the item. Pop-ups automatically refresh every minute to display the latest data.
More detailed background map - the background map is maintained separately by OpenStreetMap and includes more detailed information such as building locations and names, park names, rail road lines, parking facilities, and more.
Viewable beyond coverage area - the map covers geography outside the Gateway Traveler Information System coverage area instead of displaying a black background.
Coverage area polygon - a shaded coverage area polygon is drawn over the map to display the boundary of the Gateway Traveler Information System coverage area.
State and county boundaries - state and county boundaries are clearly marked (and labeled when zoomed in).
Re-center button added to allow user to scroll away from current location and then center back on their location easily

The map help pages have also been updated to include descriptions and images of the new map pages.

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