Idaho 511

The app gives what it says it does, camera locations, road conditions, road closures, and other things that may occur. It would be nice if it gave a real time location down to the nearest 10th of a mile, or what ever location you are at. Maybe even map coordinates. I like that it provides milepost locations, but it would be nice if it provided the posted speed for the location you are in.

Prior to this “update” (it is in fact a whole new app, the old one was forcibly killed and removed from the appstore), the app was fine. UX was a little clunky but everything worked: reliable real-time info, camera access, weather advisories. As of the current update, it is a complete dumpster fire. Why must I verify yet another burner email to log in to a road conditions map? Why are weather advisories (arguably the most important feature) no longer shown by affected region, but a tiny invisible dot? Why is every UX element animated? Why is everything marked with inscrutable symbolic icons instead of words? I should not have to decipher hieroglyphics to pull up a [EXPLETIVE CENSORED] camera view. It continues: all the icons are too small. There are too many icons on the map to see the actual road, even with all irrelevant layers turned off. There is no ability to change the map mode (I.e. satellite image). The “weather radar” feature causes my phone to go into rave mode, flashing random colors across the screen and making the map unreadable. But hey, I can log in so that the IT subcontractor who made this revolting garbage scow can sell my UUID and geoloc data, and there are hideo— I mean, lovely dancing Alegria cartoons splattered all over the place. It’s just like a Facebook advertisement! The future is now! I’m so excited, I’ll drive off a bridge in celebration! In conclusion, the individuals at ID DOT responsible for this digital travesty should be tried at the Hague for crimes against humanity.

What a worthless app. Especially when people need it… closures all over, crashes, wrecks, shelter in place… and none of this shows up on this app.. not obviously anyway… apparently, you have to stand on your left foot while facing Mecca… slowly select the app and open it… if your lucky, you may be able to log in.. if not… do something else cause you’re wasting your time… if you can get in.. then you have the privilege of clicking on various options which allegedly show you closed roads… riigghhhttt…, the roads are marked one of a couple of ways… gray for good, blue for fair, purple for difficult and yellow for no report… closed roads are indicated only if you sign up… then you’ll see a little red “dot”… somewhere along the road you’re looking at… it may or may not be on the screen, visible to you in your area of selection… in Victor for example… it shows the red dot in Idaho Falls… and then it gets mixed up with the little signs in the town itself… unless you zoom out, zoom in, click on the little red dot.. you want know much.. very poor design. And a closer look at all the fine print, discloses what may be the real intent of this app… read all the things they want access to… it’s a data miner. It has more permissions than most games out there. Now I get it.. they could care less you can’t easily disseminate a RED closed road.. you’re distracted so you don’t read the fine print… time to call the governor and ask about this from a fiscal standpoint… looks like there were some serious mistakes I’m going with this app.. and I’ll guarantee that Idaho taxpayers are footing the bill. We should get what we need… not what someone wants… especially the data mining aspect of this app. They can’t change what they’ll be asking for… look at it closely. Then please… take a couple of minutes to give your own review here… they need a lot more input.. or this is what we end up with😅