Google Maps has been showing traffic performance for Sydney Brisbane and Melbourne for a while now, but now Perth and Adelaide residents can find out how traffic is prevailing in their capital city too.
Powered by the Intelematics SUNA traffic channel, the service is updated every few minutes and shows a colour coded indication of the traffic on a given road. Green means good, yellow means okay and red/black means avoid at all costs. To activate, simply select the traffic button next to the “More” button at the top left of Google Maps. Or buy a GPS with traffic. Your call…
[Google Blog via Lifehacker]
James Mac
Monday, December 20, 2010 at 12:28 PMGod, North Terrace is a write off… still.
Ash - Melbourne, Australia
Tuesday, December 21, 2010 at 4:12 AMHope desktop is always the first option & later on iPhone..and I think, the increased User base in Australia for Google, especially from those cities would have forced it to get this live traffic! What do you think the reason would be? Whatever, I think this would become one of the best opt-in services from those places and I look forward spreading this service to more cities!
DaveLord
Tuesday, December 21, 2010 at 4:39 AM….Or use Google navigation on an Android phone for free!
The traffic overlay in Brisbane is Brilliant, but then Brisbane traffic is always predictably awful!