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Throttling Digitraffic API query amounts from unknown users

create12/3/2024

As previously stated, we have started today (3.12.2024) to throttle queries that do not include a Digitraffic-User header. The API responds with a 429 status code if the limits are exceeded. By adding a Digitraffic-User header to your requests, you can continue using the service as before.

Api for road weather stations data history has been published

create11/12/2024

New api for history of road weather stations data have been published.

Railway traffic yearly plans map service will be discontinued on June 18, 2024

create4/5/2024

Railway traffic yearly plans map service will be discontinued on June 18, 2024.

Digitraffic status page changes on 26 March

The Digitraffic status page will be replaced with a new service on 26 March.

Railway traffic passenger information

create9/6/2023

Railway traffic passenger information notices are now available via the Digitraffic railway API at /passenger-information.

Traffic messages MQTT

create3/28/2023

Traffic messages are now published in MQTT

New road APIs and the removal of deprecated APIs in six months

create11/14/2022

New road traffic APIs have been published.

New Marine APIs and deprecations of old APIs in six months

create11/9/2022

New APIs for Marine have been published.

Changes to road weather stations and sensors

create5/9/2022

Changes to road weather station data collection coming into effect on week 20 between Tue-Thu 17.-19.5.2022 will also cause changes in the data available through our APIs. Due to technical restrictions, data was previously collected from one physical location using multiple station identifiers. In the future, all data from a single location will be listed under a single station identifier, which means that the amount of stations will decrease.

New road maintenance tracking and traffic message APIs are published and deprecation of old APIs in six months

create4/28/2022

New api versions for road maintenance information and traffic messages has been published.

Subscribe for Digitraffic status updates via email

create3/28/2022

Did you know you can subscribe to email updates about maintenance breaks and incidents? Subscribe by clicking the “Subscribe to updates” button on the status page. https://status.digitraffic.fi

Camera/weather data breaks on Tuesday 25th of January from 10.00 AM to 11.00 AM (EET)

create1/25/2022

There is a service break in weather camera and road weather data on 25th of January at 10 AM - 11 AM.

TMS, weathercam and road weather data service break 17th of November at 10 AM - 12 PM (EET)

create11/17/2021

There is a service break in TMS, weather cam and road weather data updating on 17th of November at 10 AM - 12 PM.

Winter navigation data service break 11th of August at 08:30 AM (EEST)

create8/10/2021

There will be a service break in winter navigation data on 11.8. at 08:30.

Road: Avoiding unnecessary data transfer in weather camera requests

create7/26/2021

We recommend the usage of conditional HTTP requests in weather camera image requests to avoid unnecessary data transfer.

Road: Free flow speeds are now also available through tms-stations metadata

create6/29/2021

Free flow speeds can be found from https://tie.digitraffic.fi/api/v3/metadata/tms-stations API. Data can be found with keys freeFlowSpeed1 and freeFlowSpeed2 respectively.

TMS, weathercam and road weather data service break 25th of May at 10 AM - 3 PM (EEST)

create5/25/2021

There is a service break in TMS, weather cam and road weather data updating on 25th of May at 9 AM - 3 PM.

TMS, weathercam and road weather data service break 11th of May at 8 AM - 4 PM (EET)

create5/11/2021

There is a service break in TMS, weather cam and road weather data updating on 11th of May at 8 AM - 4 PM.

Use of Digitraffic-User HTTP header

create3/30/2021

We recommend the use of the Digitraffic-User HTTP header in all API requests according to API usage guidelines. Requests without the header can possibly face usage limitations in the future.

Traffic messages updates

create3/16/2021

Traffic messages APIs has been updated. JSON api contains now more information and area geometries have it’s own API.

Road: Variable Signs

create3/9/2021

Variable Signs can now be fetched as datex2(formermly in beta). A new API was added that allows to generate symbols used in variable sign text as SVG-files.

New Digitraffic status page

create1/27/2021

The Digitraffic status page has been updated. The new status page allows subscribing to notifications (incidents, maintenances) by email or Slack. The status page also has an API https://status.digitraffic.fi/api/ for examining state of individual components or notifications.

LOTJU LAM data service break 18th of January at 10 AM - 11 AM (EET)

create1/18/2021

There is a service break in LOTJU LAM data updating on 18th of January at 10 AM - 11 AM.

Rail: possible interruption in data updates 15 Oct from 10 PM to 2 AM

create10/15/2020

There is a maintenance window related to railway data sources tonight, 15th of October at 10 PM to 2 AM. This might cause interruptions in data updates.

Rail: GraphlQL v2

create10/13/2020

Rail: deleted trains can now be searched

create6/30/2020

Deleted trains can be retrieved via /trains/<departure_date> and /trains/<departure_date>/<train_number> using parameter ?include_deleted

Waterway traffic disturbance data available

create6/17/2020

Notifications contain information about disturbances to marine or inland waterway traffic.

Production applications updated on 9th of June 2020 at 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM (EET)

create6/9/2020

Digitraffic production applications have been updated.

Weather Forecast summer break starting soon and ends 1st of September 2020

create6/2/2020

Weather forecasts will start soon and ends 1st of September and the data will stay on it’s last state.

Rail: some of the vehicle numbers will be published at 2020-05-13 09:00

create5/13/2020

If vehicle type is Sm1, Sm2, Sm4 tai Sm5, its vehicle number will be visible

Production applications updated on 5th of May 2020 at 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM (EET)

create5/5/2020

Digitraffic production applications have been updated.

Requests without compression will be rejected

create4/30/2020

Requests that do not have Accept-Encoding: gzip (unpacked requests) in their HTTP-headers take up lot of resources and money. Therefore they will first be throttled and ultimately rejected completely

Rail: track work notifications and traffic restriction notifications now available

create3/26/2020

Traffic work notifications and traffic restriction notifications from the RUMA system are now available. The data is available in JSON and GeoJSON formats.

HTTP compression headers mandatory from 1.6.2020

create3/20/2020

HTTP compression headers are required starting from 1.6.2020.

Production applications updated on 18th of February 2020 at 10:00 AM – 12:30 PM (EET)

create2/18/2020

Digitraffic production applications have been updated.

Production applications updated on 4th of February 2020 at 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM (EET)

create2/4/2020

Digitraffic production applications have been updated.

Production applications updated on 3rd of December 2019 at 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM (EET)

create12/3/2019

Digitraffic production applications have been updated.

TMS data documentation available

create10/30/2019

TMS data documentation is now available. The documentation is not comprehensive but hopefully useful.

Rail: trains and compositions version history API available

create10/15/2019

trains and compositions version history API available

PORTNET service break over

create9/18/2019

The PORTNET service break is over and port status information is now available. We apologize for any inconvenience.

PORTNET service break 17th of September

create9/17/2019

There is a service break on the PORTNET integration on 17th of September due to PORTNET version upgrade.

LOTJU service break 3rd of September at 10 AM - 2 PM (EET)

create9/3/2019

There is a service break on LOTJU on 3rd of September at 10 AM - 2 PM due to LOTJU version 2.12.4 upgrade.

Rail: station searches can now be filtered with train category

create8/20/2019

Station searches can now be filtered with train category. This is useful for separating passengers trains from cargo trains

Rail: data avaiable as GeoOJson

create8/19/2019

Data is avaiable as GeoJson by adding .geojson to the url

Production applications updated on 30th of July 2019 at 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM (EET)

create7/30/2019

Digitraffic production applications have been updated.

Production applications updated on 4th of June 2019 at 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM (EET)

create6/4/2019

Digitraffic production applications have been updated.

Weather Forecast summer break from 1st of June to 31st of August 2019

create5/31/2019

Weather forecasts will be on a summer break from 1st of June to 31st of August 2019 and the data will stay on it’s last state.

Production applications updated on 21st of April 2019 at 10:10 AM – 10:30 AM (EET)

create5/21/2019

Digitraffic production applications have been updated.

Rail: Routesets are released 2019-05-20 09:30

create5/20/2019

Routesets will be released 2019-05-20 09:30

Production applications updated on 30th of April 2019 at 10:50 AM – 11:45 AM (EET)

create4/30/2019

Digitraffic production applications have been updated.

Production applications updated on 16th of April 2019 at 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM (EET)

create4/16/2019

Digitraffic production applications have been updated.

Production applications updated on 26th of March 2019 at 10:00 AM – 11:00 PM (EET)

create3/26/2019

Digitraffic production applications have been updated.

LOTJU service break 26th of March at 10 AM - 2 PM (EET)

create3/25/2019

There is a service break on LOTJU on 26th of March at 10 AM - 2 PM due to LOTJU version upgrade.

Production applications updated on 19th of March 2019 at 10:00 AM – 11:00 PM (EET)

create3/19/2019

Digitraffic production applications have been updated.

Rail: STOMP has been shut down

create2/28/2019

STOMP has been shut down

Please use MQTT for websocket connections

Production applications updated on 26th of February 2019 at 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM (EET)

create2/26/2019

Digitraffic production applications have been updated.

Production applications updated on 22th of January 2019 at 10:15 AM – 10:50 AM (EET)

create1/22/2019

Digitraffic production applications have been updated.

Rail: MQTT usable trough SSL

create1/22/2019

MQTT can now be used trough SSL. See example: https://jsfiddle.net/f9v342oc/

Production applications updated on 15th of January 2019 at 10:00 AM – 10:45 AM (EET)

create1/15/2019

Digitraffic production applications have been updated.

Production applications updated on 8th of January 2019 at 10:00 AM – 10:20 AM (EET)

create1/8/2019

Digitraffic production applications have been updated.

Digitraffic will be operated by Fintraffic

Starting from the 1st of January 2019 Digitraffic will be operated by Fintraffic.

Distribution of weather and traffic camera images from Tampere

create12/20/2018

The Finnish Transport Agency has interrupted distribution of traffic and weather camera images from the Tampere city streets in the Digitraffic service.

Production applications updated on 18th of December 2018 at 11:25 AM – 11:35 AM (EET)

create12/18/2018

Digitraffic production applications have been updated.

Production applications updated on 11th of December 2018 at 11:00 AM – 11:45 AM (EET)

create12/11/2018

Digitraffic production applications have been updated.

Websocket endpoints End of Life on 21th of December 2018

create12/6/2018

Road and marine legacy WebSocket -endpoints will be ended on 21th of December 2018.

LOTJU service break on 11th of December 2018 at 10 AM – 2 PM (EET) (reserve day on 13th of December 2018)

create12/5/2018

There is a service break on LOTJU on Tuesday 11th of December at 10 AM – 2 PM due to LOTJU 2.9.0 version upgrade.

LOTJU service break 4th of December at 10 AM - 2 PM (EET) (canceled)

create12/4/2018

There is a service break on LOTJU on tuesday 4th of December at 10 AM - 2 PM due to LOTJU 2.9.0 version upgrade.

Possible service breaks due to maintenance on 27th of November at 10 AM - 1 PM (EET)

create11/26/2018

A planned server maintenance break occurs on tuesday 27th of November at 10 AM - 1 PM (EET).

LOTJU service break 27th of November at 10 AM - 2 PM (EET)

create11/26/2018

There is a service break on LOTJU on tuesday 27th of November at 10 AM - 2 PM due to LOTJU 2.9.0 version testing.

Possible service breaks due to maintenance on 24th of November at 4 PM - 9 PM (EET)

create11/22/2018

A planned network upgrade break occurs on saturday 24th of November at 4 PM - 9 PM (EET).

Rail: time table periods and their change dates released

create11/16/2018

See https://rata.digitraffic.fi/api/v1/metadata/time-table-periods

Ongoing issues with Portnet data

create11/15/2018

Portnet port visits affected

Timestamp change 6.11.2018

create11/12/2018

Significant changes in API timestamps

Road and Marine production has moved to AWS

create11/12/2018

Digitraffic marine and road environmens have been migrated to AWS cloud service.

Road and Marine production migrates to AWS 6th of November 2018

create11/5/2018

Digitraffic marine and road environment migrates to AWS-platform. Production will migrate to AWS tomorrow 6th of November 2018. URL addresses and API do not change.

Rail: STOMP reaches end-of-life 31.1.2018

create11/1/2018

STOMP reaches end of life 31.1.2018. STOMP will be replaced by MQTT. See below links for examples on how to use MQTT:

Outages in data sources

create10/31/2018

There was about five hour long outage 31st of October 2018. We apologize for any inconvenience. The outage was caused by data source.

Rail: all data available trough MQTT

create10/30/2018

See examples:

Test environment migrates to AWS 29th of October 2018

create10/29/2018

Digitraffic test environment migrates to AWS-platform today 29th of October 2018. Production will migrate to AWS tomorrow 30th of October 2018.

Production applications updated 23.10.2018 11:30 - 12:00

create10/23/2018

Digitraffic production applications have been updated.

More info about Websocket changes at 19th of October and 31st of December 2018

create10/12/2018

Websocket endpoints will cease to serve 19th of October 2018.

Marine websocket API changes 19th of October and 31st of December 2018

create10/12/2018

Marine Websocket address will cease sending data 19th of October 2018.

Websocket endpoints End of Life

create10/1/2018

Websocket endpoints ws://tie.digitraffic.fi/api/v1/plain-websockets/tmsdata ja ws://tie.digitraffic.fi/api/v1/plain-websockets/tmsdata/{lam-station-id} will be ended 19.10.2018.

Production applications updated 11.9.2018 10:00 - 10:30

create9/11/2018

Digitraffic production applications have been updated.

Rail: old train locations in zip files

create9/11/2018

Old train locations can now be found at /api/v1/train-locations/dumps/list.html

Production applications updated 28.8.2018 10:30 - 11:10

create8/28/2018

Digitraffic production applications have been updated.

Rail: unknownDelay feature

create8/13/2018

Sometimes a train is late, but traffic controllers can not say for how long.

New forecast source COMBOCALC

create8/9/2018

New forecast source COMBOCALC replaces DIGITRAFFIC_AUTOMATIC

Production applications updated 26.6.2018 10:00 - 10:45

create6/26/2018

Digitraffic production applications have been updated.

Production applications updated 5.6.2018 10:00 - 10:45

create6/5/2018

Digitraffic production applications have been updated.

Rail: Historic positions of trains published 21.5.2018 09:00

create5/21/2018

Historic positions of trains can be found from new endpoint /train-locations/<departure_date>/<train_number>

Production applications updated 24.4.2018 12:30 - 13:15

create4/24/2018

Digitraffic production applications have been updated.

Production applications updated 10.4.2018 10:30 - 10:50

create4/10/2018

Digitraffic production applications have been updated.

Production applications updated 27.2.2018 10:30 - 10:50

create2/27/2018

Digitraffic production applications have been updated.

Production applications updated 20.2.2018 10:20 - 10:40

create2/20/2018

Digitraffic production applications have been updated.

Production applications updated 9.1.2018 10:05 - 10:54

create1/9/2018

Digitraffic production applications have been updated.

Production applications updated 28.11.2017 10:20 - 10:30

create11/28/2017

Production applications have been updated.

Production applications updated 7/15/2017 10:00 - 12:00

create7/15/2017

Production applications have been updated.

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