check_road_status
Read-onlyIdempotent
Whether a motorway, B or Land road (NI, SN, TH, BW: pass the Land/town as place) is open, closed, restricted, now or coming days; by place, jams, city/Land messages, Hamburg traffic cameras. Use when asked if a road is open/passable — "ist die A8 in diesem Moment gesperrt", "komme ich durch", at any clock, closures tonight/weekend — or city Stau: "Stau in Köln?". Do NOT use for jams/delays on a named motorway or multi-motorway route — check_autobahn_traffic; roadworks in a date window — find_roadworks_ahead; city street: not held, say so. ≤ 14 days, ≤ 11 entries. Show attribution.
Input Schema
TableJSON Schema
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| lat | No | Latitude in WGS 84, e.g. 48.137. Use with lon when the caller already holds coordinates; otherwise use place. | |
| lon | No | Longitude in WGS 84, e.g. 11.576. Use with lat; otherwise use place. | |
| road | No | One German motorway or federal road, e.g. "A8" or "B27", or a Landes- or Staatsstraße in Niedersachsen, Sachsen or Thüringen, e.g. "L1025" or "S296". "A8", "A 8" and "a8" are the same road. Use this whenever the person named a road — it is the only input that reaches the planned-works data, which is filed by road and section and carries no coordinates. When the person also says WHERE — a town or a Bundesland ("die B2 bei Potsdam", "L1025 in Niedersachsen") — pass that as place too: only sources for that Land answer, and a Land no source covers is named. L and S numbers repeat in every Land, so give the Land with them. Otherwise give exactly one of road, place, or lat+lon. | |
| limit | No | Maximum entries to return (1–11, default 10). By road, closures come first, then restrictions in force, then planned works; by place, nearest first. | |
| place | No | Where to look, as free text: a city ("München", "Munich"), a district or Kreis ("Kreis Fulda"), a Bundesland, a station or stop ("Hamburg Hbf"), a motorway junction ("AK Neufahrn"), or a street address with a house number ("Bahnhofstraße 12, 36037 Fulda"). A motorway number alone ("A7") resolves to the road, which has no single point — name a town or junction on it instead. Use this instead of coordinates whenever the person named a place. An address needs its town or postcode — a street and a number alone exist in many towns. Give either place OR lat+lon, never both. | |
| language | No | Set this on every call to the language the person is writing in: "en" if they wrote English, "de" if they wrote German. Do not leave it out: it defaults to German ("de"), which is only the fallback when the language is genuinely unclear, so an English question sent without it is answered in German — a wrong answer. Place names, station names and road numbers are never translated in either language; in English the German term is kept in parentheses so the person recognises it on signs and in local apps. | de |
| horizon_days | No | How many days ahead to look, counting from now (0 = right now only, max 14, default 3). Set it only to what the person actually asked for: 0 when they said right now / gerade / jetzt / in diesem Moment, 1 for tonight or heute Abend, 3 for "this weekend", 7 for "next week", and for a named weekday ("am Freitag", "on Friday") the number of days from today to that day. A bare "is the A8 open?" asks for no window — omit the argument and take the default rather than reading it as 0. Live closures are always included whatever this is, and so, by place, are the jams reported right now ("Stau in Köln?" needs no horizon). |