Google Traffic on Surface Streets Not Perfect

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Late for work? Just zoom-in!

As Chris Hunkele points out, Google has launched traffic information for surface streets (no longer just interstates), but it’s not perfect just yet. Chris tells us:

… it’s a little buggy, look at the east west curvy street (greenway), when zoomed in the traffic is fine, when zoomed out it’s red, you can keep zooming in and out and it will just keep reporting the same thing… :(

Something that Chris is ignoring is how powerful Google really is… it’s entirely possible when you zoom in too much, Google is changing the traffic lights to adjust the flow of traffic — so the results are actually accurate.

Also… Chris… you might want to stop zooming in on Greenway, backing all that traffic up :D

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One Response to “Google Traffic on Surface Streets Not Perfect”

  1. Santiago February 27, 2012 at 10:08 pm #

    I didn’t know http ruetesqs were actually handled in a Single-Thread Model on GAE. o_OI guess very few has written/deployed code that requires (is based on) a STM. Thus almost everybody could simply enable , right?

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