[LPCRoy]

This was my first big launch at Google!

The traffic estimates we eliminated are different that the ones we use in Route Around Traffic. The old ones (e.g. "Up to XX Hours, XX Minutes in traffic") were pretty inaccurate and was a picture only of worst case scenarios, whereas we feel the data used in route around traffic is much more accurate.

[Adaptive]

I've been waiting for this kind of thing to show up on the smartphone mapping front, nicely done!

[gmac]

The TomTom app has done this for a while -- historic data = 'IQ Routes', live data = 'Traffic'. The live data is by subscription, but not that dear.

[heed]

Where do you guys get your traffic data from? Is it mostly from people using google maps mobile?

[LPCRoy]

Can't really comment, but this blog post may point you in the right direction.

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/08/bright-side-of-sittin...