Observed arrival · 2026-09-26
RouteWatch: landslide warnings along Sri Lankan journeys
A multilingual tool for checking whether a journey between Sri Lanka’s hill country and lowlands passes through divisions under an official landslide warning.
- For
- People planning drives between Sri Lanka’s hill country and lowlands
- Worth noticing
- Its steep-slope measure flags terrain beside a road above 30°, not the road gradient or an official hazard map.
Field notes
The page describes precomputed routes based on OpenStreetMap and warning levels copied from official NBRO bulletins, division by division. Its supporting signals have specific limits: the steep-slope measure concerns terrain beside the road, while satellite rainfall is compared with each division’s own record and may miss local downpours. Emergency numbers for the Disaster Management Centre, police, and Suwa Seriya ambulance are listed. The extracted interface shows loading labels rather than populated route results.
Observed signals
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