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Fintraffic Digitraffic Road Messages

Current Finnish road-traffic announcements from Fintraffic for inspecting accident-related closures and other mapped road disruptions.

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At a Glance

Difficulty
Intermediate — some data preparation helps
Size
Small · ≤0.1 GB
Formats
GeoJSON
Access
API
API Key
Not Required
Provider
Fintraffic
Updates
Near Real Time
Last Verified
Sep 28, 2026
Source Type
Government Source
Data Terms
CC BY 4.0; credit Fintraffic and preserve its required attribution and notices.
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From Source to Product Signal

Test a Product Idea in Four Steps

Digitraffic returns current road messages with mapped geometry. Begin by counting a few announcement categories from one snapshot. The feed is not complete route advice; inspect event type, validity, and geometry before associating a closure with a destination.

1

Check the Setup

  • Python 3.10 or newer
  • An internet connection
  • The requests Python package
2

Access the Data

  1. 1.Review the road-traffic documentation and CC BY attribution terms.
  2. 2.Fetch one current v2 traffic-announcement GeoJSON response.
  3. 3.Inspect event categories before filtering to accident-related closures.
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3

Run the Python Example

Install the packages, then run the notebook cell.

python -m pip install requests

import requests

response = requests.get(
    "https://tie.digitraffic.fi/api/traffic-message/v2/traffic-announcements",
    timeout=30,
)
response.raise_for_status()
features = response.json()["features"]
for item in features[:5]:
    properties = item["properties"]
    print(properties["situationId"], properties["situationType"],
          properties["releaseTime"])
4

Test a Useful Signal

Inspect Finnish Road Message Types

Identify which live message categories could support a local disruption card.

  1. 01Count current messages by situation type and retain update timestamps.
  2. 02Check geometry and validity before labeling a message as local.
  3. 03Credit Fintraffic and explain why the feed is not complete routing advice.

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Dataset Details

Fintraffic is a government source. Last verified 2026-09-28. Temporal coverage: current road traffic announcements.

Geography

Finland

Formats

GeoJSON

Provider

Fintraffic

Data Terms

CC BY 4.0; credit Fintraffic and preserve its required attribution and notices.

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