Google today announced live traffic information for Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and their surrounding areas on Google Maps. It even works with mobile devices!
Powered by Intelematics – the guys behind the SUNA traffic channel for your satnav device – the Google traffic service appears on the maps as a coloured line over a major road or motorway. Green means, good, yellow means average congestion, red is heavy traffic and red/black means you’d be better off walking. The info is updated every few minutes, so it’s always ready to go.
In all honesty, this probably isn’t the most practical way of transmitting traffic information – exactly what is the difference between a yellow and red line, for example – but if it helps just one person avoid being late to a meeting because they went a different way to avoid traffic, then I guess it’s all worth it…
Tristan
Tuesday, September 15, 2009 at 4:29 PMIt’s good that Australia (parts of it anyway) get the data now though!
Very Happy! – Now if some of the GPS apps on the iPhone (Sygic or TomTom) would offer it too!
Matt Liu
Tuesday, September 15, 2009 at 6:02 PMapparently using gps apps on an iphone is illegal due to mobile communication related features.
Ben Anderson
Wednesday, September 16, 2009 at 12:13 AMIllegal, perhaps. Enforced, no.
Jordan
Tuesday, September 15, 2009 at 5:34 PMPerth? Some Perth love?
:(
Rei
Tuesday, September 15, 2009 at 6:39 PMWhere is Perth?
kevin bevan
Tuesday, September 15, 2009 at 11:37 PMPerth is in Scotland. Everyone knows that.
Coolman Ninja
Wednesday, September 16, 2009 at 1:01 PMPerth is in Scotland? Isnt perth in Tobago and Trinidad
Andrew
Wednesday, September 8, 2010 at 10:03 PMPerth is now covered :)
Nigel
Wednesday, December 1, 2010 at 9:16 PMStopped working in Perth about 2 weeks ago