SDDOT 511 Reviews

I have seen WYDOT 511 and they are much easier to use/access.. when I click on road conditions and it takes me to routes.. the list is blank but there are stars and each one of those represent one route (I.e. I-90 from Rapid City to State Line).. you cannot see the name of routes unless you click on the star so it is annoying I have to click on each star til I find the route I want/need to know conditions for. Same for Legend.. it shows the colors but does not show what it means even if I click on it. This needs a lot of improvements. On the Map.. showed 3 different colors (assuming it’s the snowstorm and the severity that’s coming tonight through Sunday) is not labeled or say what the colors mean. I am not impressed.

I like the fact that you don’t have to dial the number to check road conditions. The voiceover reads every details just as you hear on the phone. However I would recommend if you could have notifications on changes like if no travel alerts. Send notifications on the road conditions when winter weather hits the area or when road constructions are going on in any area near our locations. I would like to get the information without opening SDDOT511 .

SDDOT511 is rated 17+, but that rating is normally reserved for apps with adult content. If an adult wants to limit their teen’s access to such apps, they also have to limit the teen’s access to SDDOT511. SDDOT511 should be rated 12+.

When I first got SDDOT511 a while ago it was handy but clunky to use. Now that they have updated the interface and made the map key easy to access I can’t complain how easy and accurate it is.

While the map is similar to the website and the tools are all there, the data is OLD. The cameras show the correct time, but the pictures are from a night time view when it's 2pm. If I can't trust the data, it's useless. It's extremely clumsy on a phone as well. I also have the same complaint about the map: no key to tell you what the various colors are. Worse, if you zoom in to look at an area, it makes it smaller and smaller, not bigger.

Map is awful to use. Route is only slightly better to get info. Surrounding states all have better and more easily viewable and usable apps. Only reason for one star is because it does allow a quick route view summary. Otherwise it’s terrible. Please, please, please.... link up with surrounding states and get what they have and use. Could be so much better.

The problem with SDDOT511 is it doesn’t show the correct road conditions most of the time and at night time they stop updating it. Anyone who drives at night cannot rely on SDDOT511.

Again it’s been raining and snowing in areas and SDDOT511 still showing dry. The update every 30 minutes is a lie

The updated app is awful. Not user friendly at all. Can’t read all of the road reports when you click on a road. Can pull it up but not far enough to read everything. When I let go, it goes back to the beginning so I can’t see all the segments of a particular road.

Map doesn’t load properly, zooming rarely works, and it’s not possible to see the map and the legend at the same time. Utterly unusable—worse even than the website, which is quite bad as well. Nebraska, Minnesota, and Iowa have nearly identical apps. Please contact your neighbors in one of these DOT offices to get the vendor’s name and move SD 511 to this same user experience.

Needs another update. The saved road camera location titles are not showing up unless you tap and hold the column so you have to hunt and peck to find the right location. I have IOS 13.

This is a bad app that has to many options. To confusing and does not work well on a phone.

The website it is based on is not as confusing. I am so glad tax dollars are used to make poor products.

Need to update, in dark mode the legend shows icons, but you cannot view the words.

Would be nice if you could see the legend and map at the same time.

I like SDDOT511. I like that I can see the roads and read the data.

Recommended it to all of my family members.

I was so excited to find SDDOT511, but I can't find anything to tell me what the various colors mean for the roads. I turned on "show legend" but that didn't seem to work.

Would you update your app to match Minnesota and Iowa? Yours is so difficult to read. You have to switch between map and legend to see what things mean. When you zoom into the map, it doesn’t zoom correctly. The bordering states are so much more user friendly.

Current version doesn’t display highways or camera names in their respective screens when in dark mode on iOS.

SDDOT511 is just awful. It looks like it hasn’t been updated in years. It doesn’t work well for newer iPhones. I deleted right after I tried to use it the first time. Not helpful what so ever. If I could give it negative stars, I’d give it a negative five.

This should not be difficult, c’mon SD. App had road conditions on map but good luck trying to figure out what they mean. No legend!! Leave it to government. Do yourself a favor and skip SDDOT511 go straight to the website!!

Like SDDOT511 . We live in rural area so knowing road conditions is important. We wish the legend would be on the same screen as the map.

Not even worth the download. Old interface, nothing loads, and hard to read if it does work. Clearly, neither time nor effort seems to be put into creating or improving SDDOT511.

Overall not too bad but surrounding states have much better apps that are easier to use. SDDOT511 has no easy way to see a legend at the same time you are looking at the road conditions. So if you don’t happen to know that a pink road with black dotted line means “whatever” you are out of luck. You need to go through several menus to get to actual road info in text format. SDDOT511 could easily be improved dramatically with just a few tweaks. Our neighbors in Minnesota give a good example of an easy to use 511 app.

SDDOT511 still uses the old UI features since iOS 6. The interface is clunky. Moving around the map is a pain. It seems that it’s using some proprietary map app and not Apple Maps. I’m just better off planning ahead and pay attention to the weather. I uninstalled it.