Android’s Google Maps App Automatically Tells You How to Beat Traffic

Re:Android’s Google Maps App Automatically Tells You How to ... by LPCRoy on Wednesday August 10, 2011 @10:50PM (#2871127)

This was my first big launch at Google!

The traffic estimates we eliminated are different that the ones we use in Route Around Traffic. The old ones (e.g. "Up to XX Hours, XX Minutes in traffic") were pretty inaccurate and was a picture only of worst case scenarios, whereas we feel the data used in route around traffic is much more accurate.

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Re:Android’s Google Maps App Automatically Tells You How to ... by Adaptive on Wednesday August 10, 2011 @10:52PM (#2871129)

I've been waiting for this kind of thing to show up on the smartphone mapping front, nicely done!

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Re:Android’s Google Maps App Automatically Tells You How to ... by gmac on Thursday August 11, 2011 @04:57AM (#2872053)

The TomTom app has done this for a while -- historic data = 'IQ Routes', live data = 'Traffic'. The live data is by subscription, but not that dear.

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Re:Android’s Google Maps App Automatically Tells You How to ... by heed on Wednesday August 10, 2011 @11:33PM (#2871234)

Where do you guys get your traffic data from? Is it mostly from people using google maps mobile?

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Re:Android’s Google Maps App Automatically Tells You How to ... by LPCRoy on Thursday August 11, 2011 @08:37PM (#2875464)

Can't really comment, but this blog post may point you in the right direction.

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/08/bright-side-of-sittin...

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