Traffic Conditions

Yahoo Maps Traffic Update
Yahoo announces upgraded real-time traffic coverage: more cities, more detail, more roads…. »
Posted on Wednesday, May 14, 2008 at 8:07 PM
Categories: Online Maps, Traffic Conditions
MapQuest Traffic
MapQuest has added current traffic conditions for more than 100 metropolitan areas; more details and a list of the cities covered are available here. Digital Earth Blog has an early review: “A quick glance seems to show that they… »
Posted on Tuesday, March 18, 2008 at 9:23 PM
Categories: Online Maps, Traffic Conditions
Google Maps: Ad Layer, Geocoding, Rush Hour Traffic
A few items about Google Maps, some of which of interest to developers, others to everyone. An ad layer for Google Maps (see previous entry) is described as “ready for early testers”; at some point it will be unleashed for… »
Posted on Wednesday, August 1, 2007 at 9:02 PM
Categories: Hacks & Mashups, Traffic Conditions
A GPS News Roundup: Car Navigation Security, Robust Surface Navigation, Solar Flares
Security experts — who, to be fair, have an interest in crying wolf — warn that hackers can use off-the-shelf equipment to send messages to car navigation systems using the FM channel for traffic and weather data. Remember: if your… »
Posted on Tuesday, April 24, 2007 at 10:03 AM
Categories: Driving Directions, GPS, Traffic Conditions
Google Maps Adds Traffic Conditions
Google Maps adds traffic conditions for 30 U.S. cities, appearing as another mode beside Map, Satellite and Hybrid: “If your route shows red, you’re looking at a stop-and-go commute; yellow, you could be a little late for dinner; green, you’ve… »
Posted on Wednesday, February 28, 2007 at 6:12 PM
Categories: Online Maps, Traffic Conditions
School Project Maps Road Hazards
Schoolchildren in Liverpool, as part of a safety project called “Our Walk to School,” have mapped their local areas in an attempt to highlight road and traffic hazards; the maps, on A4 paper, have been collected in an atlas which,… »
Posted on Thursday, September 29, 2005 at 11:38 AM
Categories: Education, Exhibitions, Traffic Conditions
Traffic for Treo
Palm has released an application called Traffic for the Treo 600/650 that provides, for a monthly fee, live traffic data and maps for 10 U.S. cities (via Palm Infocenter)…. »
Posted on Thursday, July 28, 2005 at 8:11 AM
Categories: Mobile Devices, Software, Traffic Conditions
Traffic Conditions Web Site Roundup
A couple of traffic-related items to report this afternoon. Wiresoft offers highway traffic conditions for mobile phones for a dozen locations in the U.S. It’s a free service, but your phone has to be able to support it; the page… »
Posted on Wednesday, July 6, 2005 at 3:12 PM
Categories: Traffic Conditions
Traffic Maps for Portland, Oregon
The Oregon Department of Transportation’s TripCheck site provides traffic information for the Portland area, including a neat speed map, which is a great way of visualizing congestion. Via Matt…. »
Posted on Sunday, June 5, 2005 at 3:05 PM
Categories: Portland, Traffic Conditions
Seattle Buses in Real Time
If the amount of maps, software and hardware available is any indication (see previous entries: 1, 2; the Seattle Area Traffic page has moved since that July 2003 entry), the traffic around Seattle can’t be very good. Now here’s another… »
Posted on Monday, May 30, 2005 at 11:13 AM
Categories: Mass Transit, Seattle, Traffic Conditions
Houston Traffic Widget
The Houston Traffic Map widget makes the information found on the Houston real-time traffic map available as a Dashboard widget (for Mac OS X 10.4 “Tiger”)…. »
Posted on Monday, May 16, 2005 at 10:17 AM
Categories: Houston, Software, Traffic Conditions
Houston Real-Time Traffic Map
I’m late in relaying this, but B. Moore submitted a link to the Houston Real-Time Traffic Map, and described it thusly: This is an amazing real time traffic map that is quite sophisticated and useful (at least if you live… »
Posted on Wednesday, May 11, 2005 at 9:54 PM
Categories: Houston, Traffic Conditions
Trips123
Trips123 provides traffic and transit conditions for New York City and the surrounding area. It formally launched April 6, five years behind schedule, and has cost $20 million, half of which came from a federal grant. The New York Times… »
Posted on Monday, May 2, 2005 at 8:35 AM
Categories: Traffic Conditions
Paris Traffic Conditions
Sytadin provides real-time traffic data for Paris and its suburbs. Jonathan Hipkiss writes, “This site kept me sane when I lived in Paris and had to commute around the Peripherique daily.” (My condolences.) “It’s updated by the minute and gets… »
Posted on Tuesday, March 29, 2005 at 11:19 PM
Categories: Paris, Traffic Conditions
Georgia Navigator
This site provides real-time traffic conditions for the state of Georgia. In addition to the maps showing accidents, construction activity or trip times, you can get current accidents as a list, view traffic cameras and even what’s on those big… »
Posted on Wednesday, March 2, 2005 at 11:00 AM
Categories: Traffic Conditions
Yahoo! Maps Traffic Conditions
Yahoo! Maps now has traffic conditions, including construction sites and accidents (which it euphemistically calls “incidents”) for several U.S. cities. Via Matt…. »
Posted on Monday, December 27, 2004 at 10:41 AM
Categories: Traffic Conditions

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