Google Maps with Traffic Feeds
Google Maps started implementing live traffic feeds into their major metro areas; just click the traffic button. The traffic flow indications show up as the familiar red/yellow/green shadings onto popular commuting roadways. So while Yahoo has implemented traffic feeds on its mapping service, they don't have feed data totally rolled out for many major metro cities, as Boston and some others I spot checked only had incident data.
Bottom line - traffic data is more fully embedding itself into familiar consumer based applications, and expect this to drive the recognition of the benefits. Let's hope that these services also bring historical average speeds and then speed based routing to the masses, so that even in the worst traffic, travel times can be accurate and maybe help you get around the traffic instead of through it.
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Thanks to Jim for sending this in.
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Posted by Scott Martin at March 1, 2007 7:46 AM
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