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Ask HN: How Google maps detecting real time traffic?

4 pointsby user7878almost 8 years ago
I am curious how google maps retrieving real time traffic details so fluently over the globe.

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oblibalmost 8 years ago
Years ago I made a &quot;real time web based traffic map&quot; for a USDOT&#x2F;MODOT project. We used traffic sensors made by 3M that sent data to a local 911 center that was also setup under the same project.<p>The sensors sent traffic counts every few minutes and I used that data to draw greeen&#x2F;yellow&#x2F;red lines of the areas covered on a road map.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;multimedia.3m.com&#x2F;mws&#x2F;media&#x2F;362275O&#x2F;3-monitoring-traffic-on-bridges.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;multimedia.3m.com&#x2F;mws&#x2F;media&#x2F;362275O&#x2F;3-monitoring-traf...</a>
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prostoalexalmost 8 years ago
1) Government data <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;opendata.stackexchange.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;1767&#x2F;data-of-vehicle-traffic" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;opendata.stackexchange.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;1767&#x2F;data-of-ve...</a><p>2) Waze, Google Maps turn-by-turn