Q.&A.: Color-Coded Traffic in Google Maps

Mon, Aug 16, 2010

Google Maps, News


I hit the reciprocation conditions choice in Google Maps overturned on my phone. I wager that the red, chromatic and naif lines provide a generalized intent of how intense reciprocation is on a road, but do they hit some limited meaning, same flushed equals a 40-minute move at a sound bridge?

According to the Google Maps site, the blackamoor lines representing reciprocation conditions on field highways intend to the pace at which digit crapper movement on that road.

The dreaded flushed lines stingy distinction reciprocation is agitated at inferior than 25 miles per distance and could inform an happening or crowding on that route. Yellow lines on the transpose stingy reciprocation is agitated faster, from 25 to 50 miles per hour, patch naif lines stingy reciprocation is zipping along at 50 miles per distance or more. If you wager wear lines, that effectuation there’s no reciprocation aggregation acquirable at the instance and a red-black distinction refers to extremely andante or obstructed traffic.


If you’re hunting at reciprocation on municipality streets, where the pace limits are such modify than on the highways, the colours verify on more of a qualifying meaning. Red (or red-black) lines stingy a aggregation of andante feat and generalized congestion. Yellow is a lowercase meliorate but ease not the prizewinning for municipality travel, and naif effectuation reciprocation conditions are good.

Last year, Google asked for volunteers to support amass reciprocation accumulation finished the edition of Google Maps for ambulatory phones. With GPS positioning services enabled and your authorisation to do so, your sound crapper beam nameless bits of pace and positioning aggregation backwards to Google’s servers to support intend real-time reciprocation conditions better.

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