Thursday, April 17, 2008

Google Maps Predicts Traffic Conditions

Google Maps can now predict traffic information for any day of the week and time of the day, based on past conditions. By default, if you click on the Traffic button in a supported area from the US, Google Maps shows real-time traffic information. "Comprehensive traffic data is available in over 30 major US metropolitan areas (including Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, and others), with partial coverage available in many more," according to Google Maps help center. There's also a traffic layer in Google Earth and Google Maps Mobile, but these applications don't include yet traffic prediction.


{ Thanks, Michael. }

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They also didn't show incident information (i.e. the icons with information about lane closures, etc.) for the Chicago area before today. So for Chicagoans (I don't know if any other cities just got this too), this is a double improvement. (Though both Yahoo and Live Maps have shown incidents for a long time now)
NY State has used GMAP to produce:
www3.travelinfony.com/carsgoogle/
More GPS! Gooogle Penetrating System!
Nice Blake! Hope you have that Trademarked in some form