Google Maps has added the ability to view real time traffic data for 30 major US cities, highlighting traffic jams and slow moving traffic.
Traffic conditions are displayed over the highway as color coded lines. Each color represents how fast the traffic is moving:
- Green: more than 50 miles per hour
- Yellow: 25 – 50 miles per hour
- Red: less than 25 miles per hour
- Gray: no data currently available
iHaochi of Googlified adds “Google Maps for Mobile has had this feature for a really long time.”
This is going to be a nice feature. I do find it a little hard to see the different colors. The green blends in with the background. When the traffic option is selected they should go with a black background.
The Google blog post is located here. http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/02/stuck-in-traffic.html