What's Near Me Help

Overview

The whats near me page displays information for the closest 10 items for each item type within 50 miles of a given location. This includes current incidents, current roadworks, route journey times, live traffic cameras and planned events.

Depending on your browser you can either choose to share your location with Traffic Scotland, please see our Privacy and Cookie Policy page, or you can enter a desired location or postcode using the 'add new' location text box.

Select search to find items that are nearby.

Presentation

Items are presented by type and proximity, with items displayed from nearest to furthest from the selected location. The results are also colour coded based on their distance from your given location.

Distance key

Saved locations

Each time a location is searched the items for that location are presented and the location can be saved as one of your favourites.

Clicking on your favourite location will automatically search for items near to that location.

Favourites can be removed by clicking on the remove button.

The tool will also remember the last location you searched and will automatically return results for that location the next time you visit the page.

Please note that in order for Traffic Scotland to save your favourite locations and last location searched your browser needs to have cookie files enabled. For further information please see our Privacy and Cookie Policy page.