 Google Releases Arterial Traffic |
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| Google Releases Arterial Traffic |
 Aug 26 2009, 07:30 AM
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Main article: http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2009/08...-on-google.html
A look into how it's done: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/08/bri...in-traffic.html It's a neat service but raises some questions about phone service and GPS, especially with tracking when the phone is not in use. -------------------- "There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: that of the fashionable non-conformist." |
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Aug 26 2009, 10:32 AM
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Aug 26 2009, 04:51 PM
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QUOTE (Seeker @ Aug 26 2009, 01:23 PM)  you'd have to be an idiot to use that Why? Some of the arteries in different cities are great ways to beat freeway traffic. I checked how accurate it is by using one of the arteries on the way home. It wasn't far off. -------------------- "There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: that of the fashionable non-conformist." |
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Aug 26 2009, 10:27 PM
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this is new? it's been on the iPhone since the 2007 release. i'm confused.
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Aug 27 2009, 11:09 AM
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QUOTE (cmac @ Aug 26 2009, 11:27 PM) this is new? it's been on the iPhone since the 2007 release. i'm confused. It has not been on iPhones or any other device until recently. What you were seeing was city data being used. -------------------- "There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: that of the fashionable non-conformist." |
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Aug 27 2009, 12:14 PM
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So iphone google maps pulled from city data?
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Aug 28 2009, 09:02 AM
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QUOTE (cmac @ Aug 27 2009, 01:14 PM) So iphone google maps pulled from city data? For cities that provided arterial data, yes. They had a beta program a while back and you may have been included in that. Before that, Google Maps on the iPhone only included freeways. -------------------- "There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: that of the fashionable non-conformist." |
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