Google Traffic now has streets. STREETS!!!

By Sean Bonner
February 24th, 2009 @ 5:17 PM Driving, Maps, Transportation, Twitter
Los Angeles, CA - Google Maps

OMG holy balls! Seriously. Did you all see this? Google just updated the traffic reporting on it’s maps and now includes all major streets in LA not only the freeways. This is nothing short of revolutionary!

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11 Comments so far

  1. frazgo on February 24th, 2009 @ 6:38 pm

    awesome, now if I could access when in SM Th I could know which is the best way to move quickly to the SGV when my appt is over.

    Nothing short of revolutionary is an understatement.


  2. samba00 on February 24th, 2009 @ 8:27 pm

    Sadly, it doesn’t seem to be on Google Maps Mobile (at least not on my Sprint Treo).


  3. Lucinda Michele (la_michele) on February 24th, 2009 @ 10:10 pm

    Holy fuck! And Seth too says, "Holy fuck!" But yeah, mobile is essential! You’re in a CAR, for chrissakes!


  4. alnyden on February 25th, 2009 @ 10:40 am

    I was excited to see this. But when I looked at Google Maps, I only see about 3 streets in the entire city that there is traffic info for. Am I missing something?


  5. Sean Bonner (seanbonner) on February 25th, 2009 @ 10:50 am

    Yeah, because that’s a screenshot above and you can see there is WAY more than only 3 streets being reported on..


  6. alnyden on February 25th, 2009 @ 11:22 am

    Hmmmm. I see the screenshot. And yet my Google Maps doesn’t look anything like it. I wonder why.


  7. labarge on February 25th, 2009 @ 5:15 pm

    Hm, my computer doesn’t show it either. just like, one street. Booo!


  8. krazydad (jbum) on February 25th, 2009 @ 5:18 pm

    Don’t know if you covered it – but they also fixed search results to show more than 10 results. They show up as little green zits…


  9. Queequeg (queequeg) on February 25th, 2009 @ 11:47 pm

    If you’re not seeing the streets of LA — I was just told by someone at Google that the street traffic feature is still experimental, and it’s now back in the hands of the developers to work out some kinks.

    And, just as a sidenote, does no one else use LADOT’s map? Or, for that matter, how about Sig Alert?


  10. pcloadletter on February 26th, 2009 @ 4:27 pm

    Only street I see with traffic is Santa Monica Blvd.


  11. alnyden on March 4th, 2009 @ 9:18 am

    It was just a test. For now.

    http://www.runlancar.cn/?p=300



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