[earleybird]

Worked on this one some time ago[0]. Webcams are a big reason folks come to the site. Clicking on the "Princeton" icon get you a popup of the current image and clicking on that gets you the detail page[1]. On the detail page there is a "Replay the day" button which will "card flip" the images for the last 24hrs to give you a sense of what conditions have been like (no time machine yet :-) ).

Site went live back in 2005 with the current look appearing around about 2009 (memory is getting fuzzy).

Baseline network activity on a typical day ran about 4 MByte/sec continuous; on "snow days"[2] the load increases an order of magnitude to 24 MByte/second. That was 5+ years ago - I expect there's been growth since then.

[0] https://drivebc.ca/#mapView&z=11&ll=49.485664%2C-120.367187

[1] https://images.drivebc.ca/bchighwaycam/pub/html/dbc/452.html

[2] "Snow day" might be "the Coquihalla is getting about 50cm over the next 12 hours"