These the origins of that news. http://www.engadget.com/2011/03/07/google-maps-navigation-for-android-adds-real-time-traffic-re-rou/
http://googlemobile.blogspot.com/2011/03/youve-got-better-things-to-do-than-wait.html I think google monitors that every android phones that uses Google Maps Navigation and create traffic data out of them. Google could see those android phones jamming up in certain area and they could recalculate the route based on real time for those people using the jam routes. Right now, I think it only in US, more android users in certain country the faster Google could offer it in their users. Noli On 3/8/11, maning sambale <[email protected]> wrote: > Breaking the thread to discuss this topic. > >> anyway, here's an interesting news from Google Maps >> http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/infotech/view/20110308-324118/Google-Maps-now-helps-users-beat-traffic-jams >> this is one of my future nice-to-have >> what if we can "alter" routing algorithm decisions with time-based/real >> time >> practical max_speed for garmin >> to make intelligent routing decisions like this one? >> we all know the ETA for our units are not even near real world > > This is only possible if google can collect traffic data. I don't > know if such exist in the Philippines. > > This topic was also discussed in brief during the garmin hackday. At > the moment, we don't use any the max_speed tag in the Garmin map for > the simple reason that we have very little data. Moreover, max_speed > doesn't tell you the actual speed conditions. > > > -- > cheers, > maning > ------------------------------------------------------ > "Freedom is still the most radical idea of all" -N.Branden > wiki: http://esambale.wikispaces.com/ > blog: http://epsg4253.wordpress.com/ > ------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > talk-ph mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ph > _______________________________________________ talk-ph mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ph
