Yahoo Maps To Add Traffic Updates and Reports

Yahoo Maps To Add Traffic Updates and Reports

Yahoo is not only becoming the goto place for multimedia search and online entertainment, it’s also now offering a new service for monitoring traffic conditions online. Yahoo’s offering of traffic updates lets users plan their daily travel routes around slowdowns like constructon or perhaps even accidents.

Yahoo users will soon be able to check their local traffic conditions from Yahoo Maps.

Sushubh Mittal of TechWhack reports that Yahoo plans to offer this service integrated with online roadmaps. In addition, users will also be able to search them through normal searches.

Yahoo claims it is the first of its kind offering which would provide speed conditions and dynamic traffic information, changing by the second, nationwide.

It is a massive undertaking and would require inputs from road sensors and traffic cameras operated by state and local government entities.