Comments on: iPhone Live Traffic in Google Maps Now Works in Canada

By: ahmed

ahmed — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 21:32:00 +0000

Thanks man keep it up

By: Stuntman

Stuntman — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 04:05:31 +0000

I've been using it in various parts of Vancouver. I sometimes get the message that no traffic data is available. It seems unusual when I see this message in Vancouver, but not in Burnaby (just to the east). I would figure it would be the other way around.

My general concern is not the main highway, but the roads that lead up to them. If the main highway is busy, there is usually no better alternate route anyway. However, I find that there are many routes that let you get onto the highway and knowing which one of those is busy is more important. I guess it is easier getting data for the bigger roads since more people travel on them than the smaller roads leading onto the main highways.

By: Stuntman

Stuntman — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 21:05:31 +0000

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By: Mr. Speedy

Mr. Speedy — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 15:49:16 +0000

Here is how it works: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/08/bright-s...

By: Mr. Speedy

Mr. Speedy — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 15:05:00 +0000

Works pretty good. I drove to a red area yesterday afternoon in Montreal. Upon entering the “red” zone, I said to myself “That thing doesn't work” as I wasn't seeing any sign of slow downs, but a few hundred meters later… traffic had slowed down to a crawl! So the red zone began a little too soon on the phone, but the status was pretty accurate. I am impressed. They say it works by calculating other cellphone user's speed. Nice.

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 13:26:10 +0000

I'm surprised this works on the small streets and not just on the highways. Does anyone know how they manage to monitor the small street traffic? Do they have a camera with some guy looking at the traffic and determining if it's busy? That's a lot of streets …

By: kateross

kateross — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 10:24:45 +0000

Doesn't work in Halifax.