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Live Traffic and Transit in Google Maps Malaysia
Google Maps along with Google Maps for Android got updated today with a few features directed to us Kuala Lumpur folks. Among other things, live traffic in the urban city of Kuala Lumpur was added to facilitate travelling amidst the constant traffic lockups. You can see the screenshot here with the coloured lines depicting the amount of traffic of the current road.
The traffic data is updated as fresh as possible, and it refreshes in a matter of minutes automatically. The frequency of updates varies depending on a number of factors, so the update frequency may differ between different cities or even on different roads within a city.
The Google Maps Live Traffic is actually an accumulation of data from users travelling to and from the roads that are monitored from their mobile phones. This could be a data privacy risk though, we pretty much trust Google on what we’re doing on the web anyways right?
Google Maps also have implemented the Traffic layer, which provides data about real time road congestion right on the map. Users can quickly see whether roads are congested or flowing freely based on colour coding — red for choc-a-bloc, yellow for slow moving, and green for smooth flowing.
With the services offer by Goggle Maps it will making transit planning in the city much less hassle. Note that Android users are not only the ones that will be receiving this update. It is already live in the Google Maps website. Hence, head on to the link for more information or download yourself the Android update for Google Maps.
The traffic data is updated as fresh as possible, and it refreshes in a matter of minutes automatically. The frequency of updates varies depending on a number of factors, so the update frequency may differ between different cities or even on different roads within a city.
The Google Maps Live Traffic is actually an accumulation of data from users travelling to and from the roads that are monitored from their mobile phones. This could be a data privacy risk though, we pretty much trust Google on what we’re doing on the web anyways right?
Google Maps also have implemented the Traffic layer, which provides data about real time road congestion right on the map. Users can quickly see whether roads are congested or flowing freely based on colour coding — red for choc-a-bloc, yellow for slow moving, and green for smooth flowing.
With the services offer by Goggle Maps it will making transit planning in the city much less hassle. Note that Android users are not only the ones that will be receiving this update. It is already live in the Google Maps website. Hence, head on to the link for more information or download yourself the Android update for Google Maps.
