February 28, 2007

Traffic on Google Maps!

Well, this is old news to anybody who uses Google Maps Mobile, but you can now see traffic on Google Maps in major cities.

Google Maps

This was an often-requested feature of Google Maps and will be a welcome addition. I wonder if we’ll see drops in traffic to sites like Sig Alert. Either way, this helps heat up the competition against Yahoo and Map Quest - of which only Yahoo overlays live traffic information.

Filed under: News — Michi @ 1:37 pm

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