ResourceShelf Webcam Collection: Mt. St. Helens
Live shots of the volcano that update every 5 minutes. The cams, including the new “HD” cam, come courtesy of the U.S. Forest Service.

Source: USFS

Two of these cams allow users to pan, zoom, etc.

+ Huntington Beach (Orange County), CA
2 cams.

+ Sydney Harbour, Australia
Tilt, pan, and zoom. Requires Flash and Java.

+ Niagara Falls, ON
4 cams including a tilt/pan cam. Streaming video also available.

+ San Francisco (via Marin Cam)
A view of SF skyline from the Marin County side of the SF Bay

+ Various views of ships using the Panama Canal

+ Five Live Webcam Images of Vatican City

Sources: Various

See Also: More Webcams and Real Time Information Resources.

Land
+ Honolulu Police Department Real-Time Traffic Incident Database

+ Honolulu Real-Time Traffic Cams
Numerous Cameras Around the City
+ Kona Cam
+ Maui Webcams
+ Maui Beachcam
+ Waikiki Beach Cam (Ground Level)
+ Waikiki Beach Live Camera
+ NASA Live Webcams from Infrared Telescope Facility
+ Surfing Cams

Sea
+ Hawaiian Islands Recent Marine Data
+ Dial a Buoy (1-888-701-8992) or Buoy Info via RSS
+ Tsunami Watches and Warnings ||| The Tsunami Map Viewer

Air
+++ Honolulu International Airport Real-Time (Flights Scheduled to Arrive and Depart)
Airport Overview

++ Kona International @ Keahole ||| Airport Overview

++ Kahului Airport ||| Airport Overview

++ Hilo ||| Hilo Airport Overview

++ Lihue ||| Airport Overview

Other
+ Current Weather Conditions ||| Imagery
+ More Hyper-Local, Real-Time, Weather Stations
+ Hawaii Surfer Forecasts
+ Drive Akamai
+ Pacific Disaster Center Atlas
+ Public Transport: The Bus

Listen
+ Hawaii Public Radio
+ Live NOAA Weather Radio Stream

Last week we posted a street-level streaming webcam located at the corner of Clark and Addison, Wrigley Field, in Chicago.

This time a live stream direct from the Giant Ocean Tank at the New England Aquarium in Boston. It’s a 4-story coral reef exhibit featuring over 150 species. It’s accessible directly from the NEA (with feeding times listed) or via this Earthcam page.

See Also: Penguin Cams (above and below water) at NEA

Sources: NEA and Earthcam

Another season for the Chicago Cubs has come to an end and like Chicagoans (including Gary) have said for SO LONG, “wait ’til next year.”

In the mean time, you can look at Wrigley Field (home of the Cubs) using this LIVE street-level webcam. The camera is located near the front of the ballpark at Clark and Addison streets and offers an extremly clear view. Since it updates every few seconds, you can see traffic and people move past the camera. Those walking from left to right might be heading for the “L” train about two blocks away.

See Also: Free, Full Text: Encyclopedia of Chicago

As visitors from all over the world come to see the fall colors, Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont have taken their foliage reports high-tech, letting visitors keep track of the changing colors by mobile and e-mail alerts and computerized maps. Foliage season, which progresses north to south, started mid-September and runs into late October. The Web sites all offer foliage reports, promote fall events and suggest the best routes to travel:

* Maine’s site, www.mainefoliage.com, features a map, a live daily chat with a conservation department official, video of foliage scenes around the state, a Maine foliage hotline and foliage reports by e-mail. Forest rangers track and report the changing colors, which are updated every Wednesday through October 17.

* http://www.visitnh.gov/”>New Hampshire’s Web site encourages visitors to sign up to receive foliage reports on their cell phones and just added a new map that predicts color changes. The map is roughly based on previous years’ reports but state officials regularly check to make sure that the colors on the Web site match those in nature. Visitors can also click on specific regions to get more detailed and up-to-date reports. New Hampshire also offers alerts sent to your cell phone.

* Vermont’s site features an animated map, called the Foliage Forecaster, that estimates color changes. The map is only an approximation of typical color progression. For more accurate information, the site refers visitors to its foliage reports.

Source: Governing.com
Thanks to P.W.

It has been much to long since we added some new content to our ResourceShelf Webcam collection. So, here a few new entries:

+ Streaming Webcam: Leicester Square, London

+ Streaming Webcam: The London Eye
See Also: Big Ben Live Streaming Cam

+ Streaming Webcam: Live from the Shark Tank at the London Aquarium

+ Royal Mile, Edinburgh

+ Princes Street, Edinburgh

+ Streaming Webcam: Buchanan Street, Glasgow

+ Streaming Webcam: Loch Ness, Scotland

See Also: Other Webcams in Our Collection

Source: CamVista

TrafficLand is a great service.

They aggregate LIVE traffic cameras for cities/metro areas in Australia, Canada, Denmark, New Zealand, UK, U.S. Over 4000 cameras.

New from TrafficLand is a tool that allows the user to access code to quickly embed live traffic imagery on a web page, blog, etc.

The image that’s visible in the “widget box” does not auto-refresh. You can refresh the page yourself. However, a link to access a live image (images refresh at different rates depending on location) can be found available directly below the widget image box.

Here’s an example of a page we built with the widget coder with cameras from NYC and New Orleans.

Direct to TrafficLand Widget.

Source: TrafficLand

Update: TrafficLand is a powerful tool. However, they offer just the tip of the traffic cam iceberg. Many more live feeds from various cities and states are available. We’ve listed many in the Real-Time and Web Cam collections.

Access over live 100 traffic cams from the Raleigh-Durham, NC (Triangle) via this collection from WRAL-TV. Simply mouse over the icon and the live camera should appear.

Source: WRAL

See Also: More Cameras in the RS Webcam Collection

See Also: More Databases and Resources from the RS Real-Time Collection

KPIX in San Francisco is using a Slingbox to provide a large number of live webcams placed around the Bay Area on the KPIX web site. The Slingbox that allows any owner to stream material over the Internet including live television, DVD’s, TiVo, etc. An example. You live in the United States but UK Premier League football is your thing. Place a Slingbox on a tv in the UK (maybe a friend or a family member), login to their Slingbox, and you can watch live matches on your computer via the the tv somewhere in UK.

Direct to SF Webcams via Slingbox and KPIX.

More about the KPIX/Slingbox Project in this article from the IPTV Newsletter:
Read the rest of this entry »

ResourceShelf Webcam Collection: Directory of Weathercams in the U.S. and Several Other Countries
A really impressive collection. Browse by U.S. State and Country (40 countries). Each cam includes:
+ Near Real-Time Static Image
+ Monthly Overview of Images
+ Last Time Image was Updated
+ Camera Type
+ Time Lapse Video (24 hours of images). Example.

Source: Weather Underground

ResourceShelf Webcam Collection: PyramidCam at Giza
From the site:

The camera is located at the SIAG Pyramids Hotel in Giza, about 1.5 kilometers ENE of the Pyramids Plateau. It is placed at the highest point in the area and is over 200 feet above street level.

Note: The camera is turned of at night.

Source: PyramidCam.com

See All of the Webcams in Our Collection (So Far)

Several cameras:

+ #1

+ #2

+ #3
Federation Tower

+ #4

+ #5
Downtown Moscow

Review other Cameras list (so far) in the ResourceShelf Collection

ResourceShelf Webcam Collection: Mt. Fuji

++ #1
++ #2
++ #3
++ #4
++ #5

Review all of the real time webcams (so far) in this RS special collection.