511NY DOT cameras + traffic events map layers (#183)

GET /traffic/511 serves a bbox slice of the statewide 511NY camera and event
feeds from an in-memory cache (cameras 1h, events 2m TTL, fetched lazily) --
public data, so no Firestore writes. A failed refresh keeps the last good data
and reports the error; a schema change (nothing parses) is an error, not an
empty layer. Frontend: opt-in "DOT Cameras" and "Traffic Events" overlays that
fetch only while shown, with an on-map notice when the feed is down or stale.
NY511_API_KEY is optional in config (the API answers without one today; the
terms require a registered key).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Logan Cusano
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"""511NY (NYSDOT) traffic cameras and events, cached in memory (server-26#183).
Public data, identical for every org, so it is NOT written to Firestore: the
statewide feeds are ~3k cameras and ~2.3k events, and re-writing them every
poll would be millions of writes a day for data nobody needs history of. The
cache is filled lazily on request and refreshed per TTL, so an idle deploy
makes no 511 calls at all.
A failed refresh keeps serving the last good data and reports the error and
its age to the caller -- an empty layer must never be the only symptom of a
dead feed (the AI-silent-failures lesson).
"""
import asyncio
import time
from datetime import datetime
from typing import Any, Dict, List, Optional
import httpx
from app.config import settings
from app.internal.logger import logger
_BASE = "https://511ny.org/api"
CAMERAS_TTL_S = 60 * 60 # camera list is near-static
EVENTS_TTL_S = 2 * 60 # accidents/closures change minute to minute
RETRY_AFTER_FAILURE_S = 60
_DESCRIPTION_MAX = 500
class _Feed:
def __init__(self, path: str, ttl_s: int, normalize):
self.path = path
self.ttl_s = ttl_s
self.normalize = normalize
self.items: List[Dict[str, Any]] = []
self.fetched_at: Optional[float] = None # epoch s of last SUCCESSFUL fetch
self.error: Optional[str] = None
self._next_attempt = 0.0
self._lock = asyncio.Lock()
async def get(self) -> "_Feed":
if time.time() < self._next_attempt:
return self
async with self._lock:
if time.time() < self._next_attempt:
return self # another request refreshed while we waited
try:
self.items = await _fetch(self.path, self.normalize)
self.fetched_at = time.time()
self.error = None
self._next_attempt = time.time() + self.ttl_s
except Exception as e:
self._next_attempt = time.time() + min(self.ttl_s, RETRY_AFTER_FAILURE_S)
self.error = f"{type(e).__name__}: {e}"[:300]
logger.warning(f"511NY {self.path} refresh failed, serving {len(self.items)} cached: {self.error}")
return self
async def _fetch(path: str, normalize) -> List[Dict[str, Any]]:
params = {"format": "json"}
if settings.ny511_api_key:
params["key"] = settings.ny511_api_key
async with httpx.AsyncClient(timeout=20.0) as client:
r = await client.get(f"{_BASE}/{path}", params=params)
r.raise_for_status()
raw = r.json()
if not isinstance(raw, list):
raise ValueError(f"expected a JSON list, got {type(raw).__name__}")
out = [n for n in (normalize(x) for x in raw) if n is not None]
if raw and not out:
# every record failed to normalize: the schema changed under us
raise ValueError(f"0 of {len(raw)} records parsed -- 511NY schema change?")
return out
def _coords(x: Dict[str, Any]) -> Optional[tuple]:
try:
lat, lon = float(x["Latitude"]), float(x["Longitude"])
except (KeyError, TypeError, ValueError):
return None
if lat == 0 and lon == 0:
return None
return lat, lon
def _local_iso(s: Any) -> Optional[str]:
"""511NY stamps are 'DD/MM/YYYY HH:MM:SS' New York local time. Returned as a
naive ISO string (no offset) -- display-only, never compared to UTC."""
if not s:
return None
try:
return datetime.strptime(s, "%d/%m/%Y %H:%M:%S").isoformat()
except (TypeError, ValueError):
return None
def normalize_camera(x: Dict[str, Any]) -> Optional[Dict[str, Any]]:
c = _coords(x)
if c is None or x.get("Disabled") or x.get("Blocked") or not x.get("ID"):
return None
return {
"id": x["ID"],
"lat": c[0],
"lon": c[1],
"name": x.get("Name") or "",
"roadway": x.get("RoadwayName") or "",
"direction": x.get("DirectionOfTravel") or "",
"image_url": x.get("Url"), # 511NY serves the current still at this URL
"video_url": x.get("VideoUrl"), # HLS playlist, when the camera streams
}
def normalize_event(x: Dict[str, Any]) -> Optional[Dict[str, Any]]:
c = _coords(x)
if c is None or not x.get("ID"):
return None
desc = x.get("Description") or ""
return {
"id": x["ID"],
"lat": c[0],
"lon": c[1],
"type": x.get("EventType") or "",
"subtype": x.get("EventSubType") or "",
"severity": x.get("Severity") or "",
"roadway": x.get("RoadwayName") or "",
"direction": x.get("DirectionOfTravel") or "",
"county": x.get("CountyName") or "",
"description": desc[:_DESCRIPTION_MAX] + ("…" if len(desc) > _DESCRIPTION_MAX else ""),
"start_local": _local_iso(x.get("StartDate")),
"planned_end_local": _local_iso(x.get("PlannedEndDate")),
"updated_local": _local_iso(x.get("LastUpdated")),
}
cameras = _Feed("getcameras", CAMERAS_TTL_S, normalize_camera)
events = _Feed("getevents", EVENTS_TTL_S, normalize_event)
def in_bbox(items: List[Dict[str, Any]], south: float, west: float, north: float, east: float) -> List[Dict[str, Any]]:
return [i for i in items if south <= i["lat"] <= north and west <= i["lon"] <= east]