Google Maps… Now With Traffic

10 Replies to “Google Maps… Now With Traffic”

1. Always cool to cite where you saw this.

2. saw it on digg… sorry about that.

3. It’s been available on my Crackberry Gmaps app for months – so glad it’s on the big site now!

4. So weird – I was just posting about it this morning. What sparked my post was the post about predicting traffic.

5. Interesting, but I have been using a couple of similar for real time info for the last few years:
   http://www.sigalert.com/map.asp?Region=LA+East
   http://traffic.accuweather.com/traffic.aspx?metroid=2&area=Los+Angeles
   and finally for statewide info:
   http://cad.chp.ca.gov/

6. I still like sigalert.com for information on specific accidents w/ traffic mapping, and trafficinfo.lacity.org for street-level traffic.

7. Google Maps with traffic has been available for quite some time, but only on a mobile device.

   The “Killer App” for my Treo 700p was Google’s Mobile Maps and a broadband connection. Originally only available for the Palm OS, but I see there’s a CAB file for Windows Mobile now, that will integrate with GPS! Working on the West Side and living in Los Feliz means my route home varies almost daily, and having an (almost) real-time view of what’s happening ahead is amazing!

   Google (almost) proves the existence of (insert deity of choice here)!

8. Did Google Maps fix the part where they tell you to take exits off the highway that don’t exist? Because until that’s done I’m not particularly inclined to trust their traffic data.

9. If you’ve got a windows mobile phone, Live is actually even a bit slicker than google (heresy, I know):

   http://mobile.search.live.com/about/download
   or http://wls.live.com from your phone.

10. I use the KNX maps – they are larger scale, though they are broken into several sections… and since I live downtown, and 80% of my trips are south and east, I tend to use the LA County – East map almost all the time. I like that they have info at almost every on/offramp, and specific accident location and description indicators. I’ve been using these maps for a long time and would say they are at least 95% accurate.

    Besides, the LA-West map seems to always show red for crawling traffic… duh!

    http://www.knx1070.com/pages/79761.php?

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