Google Earth Adds Real Time Traffic Layer
The Google Lat Long Blog announced that they have added a new layer in Google Earth to provide real-time traffic data. By activating the traffic layer, little green, yellow and red balls are overlaid on the highways and roads, each symbolizing the level of traffic congestion in that area. Here is a screen capture of […]
Barry Schwartz on August 21, 2007 at 9:34 am | Reading time: 1 minute
The Google Lat Long Blog announced that they have added a new layer in Google Earth to provide real-time traffic data.
By activating the traffic layer, little green, yellow and red balls are overlaid on the highways and roads, each symbolizing the level of traffic congestion in that area.
Here is a screen capture of San Jose traffic in Google Earth at 6:30AM:
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