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Re:Google Maps Platform by forrestthewoods on Thursday May 03, 2018 @12:26AM (#16983345)
Does anyone offer a competitive service that computes directions with time-of-day travel times?

I built a tool awhile back to visualize commute ranges. It’d be nice to move this off Google Maps API.

https://blog.forrestthewoods.com/visualizing-commute-times-3...

Re:Google Maps Platform by EQmapbox on Thursday May 03, 2018 @05:36PM (#16990197)
Yep mapbox/driving-traffic profile of the Directions API factors in current and historic traffic conditions - https://www.mapbox.com/api-documentation/#directions. As my name suggests, I work for Mapbox :)
Re:Google Maps Platform by forrestthewoods on Thursday May 03, 2018 @07:59PM (#16991072)
Neat!

60 requests per minute is not very many.

Sadly I’m not sure any service will be able to do what I want at an affordable rate. :(

Re:Google Maps Platform by EQmapbox on Friday May 04, 2018 @04:01PM (#16997786)
I'd love to make this work, Forrest - drop my name in a note to [email protected] and let's see if we can get you setup with the Isochrone plugin (https://blog.mapbox.com/add-isochrones-to-your-next-applicat...) which sits on top of the Mapbox Matrix API. https://blog.forrestthewoods.com/visualizing-commute-times-3... is awesome!
Re:Google Maps Platform by Doctor_Fegg on Thursday May 03, 2018 @03:16AM (#16983972)
Graphhopper does this, based on TomTom data. I wouldn’t be surprised if Mapbox do something similar in the future.
Re:Google Maps Platform by Foremost on Thursday May 03, 2018 @07:03AM (#16984838)
The TomTom Routing API offers directions based on real-time and predictive traffic. You can check it out for free: https://developer.tomtom.com/online-routing

Note: I work for TomTom