Portals coming after local traffic
Cory Bergman March 7th, 2007
Not just web traffic, but roadway traffic. Both Google Maps and MSN Live Maps have recently launched traffic conditions, and I just heard an ad on a Seattle radio station promoting Maps.Live.com for traffic reports. Local TV sites out there, remember what happened with weather? Traffic is next.
Traditional 2D view of Seattle traffic on MSN Live Maps. You can click to add construction zones and incident reports on the map, as well.
Cool but less useful 3D view on MSN Live’s Virtual Earth.
Adds discreet_chaos in comments: “Yahoo! has been doing traffic conditions for about a year. They only have it available in some cities, as I’m sure would be the case with the others, but you can overlay it on their maps, click for a report, put it on your my. page or it’s available for your preset area under their “local” button on their homepage.”
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1. discreet_chaos | March 8th, 2007 at 1:41 pm
Yahoo! has been doing traffic conditions for about a year. They only have it available in some cities, as I’m sure would be the case with the others, but you can overlay it on their maps, click for a report, put it on your my. page or it’s available for your preset area under their “local” button on their homepage.
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