Comments on: Live Traffic Info, Mobile Killer App

By: Aswath

Aswath — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 23:52:37 +0000

This suggests that Google can follow wiki-kind of approach - people can report in congestions. Just like information wikis, one hopes stale and mis-information will be diluted by accurate reportings.

By: discreet_chaos

discreet_chaos — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 21:34:41 +0000

If you aren’t getting up-to-date info from your radio, perhaps you should call to alert them when you’re stuck in traffic. I’m sure they’d appreciate it. After all, there’s no way a service using automated info from official sources could be half as accurate as a service from the same town, who has a local number for tips and real people at the other end.

By: Adam Breindel

Adam Breindel — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 17:45:03 +0000

Regarding “Why not Treo?” — take a look at my post on development options for Palm:

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If Google really wants a Palm app, of course they’ll write one, but since the Java version won’t run out-of-the-box on Palm, it means another codebase to build and maintain…

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By: Kiran Prasad

Kiran Prasad — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 04:07:47 +0000

You can find a Treo based traffic app at (link)

By: Nimret

Nimret — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 21:00:32 +0000

I wrote a free transcoder for wsdot traffic maps in the seattle area for cellphones. It’s at (link) if you want to check it out :)

By: Joe Seither

Joe Seither — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 20:54:38 +0000

I agree with the previous comment - traffic info is almost never current by the time it gets to me, so it’s pretty useless.

By: Manish Lachwani

Manish Lachwani — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 20:19:41 +0000

411Sync did this a while back.

(link)

WAP, SMS and EMAIL access to real time traffic. Just send “traffic” with your zip code to 415-676-8397. Example: “traffic 94043″

Try out the WAP page:

(link) 94043

You can also search from IM clients like Yahoo, MSN and AOL. Wire alerts so that you can get updates as they happen.

By: Hasan

Hasan — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 20:19:08 +0000

The next step is to make it GPS-enabled, so I no longer have to type in an intersection or address.

By: Om Malik

Om Malik — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 18:47:19 +0000

most of the time you don’t get very upto date information on the radio. think of this as an additional resource.

By: Joe Rhoney

Joe Rhoney — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 17:47:00 +0000

So cool! I love it!

Maps for Blackberry was already drop dead cool. This makes it amazing!

On my commute this morning, it was totally accurate.

By: Patrick Mullen

Patrick Mullen — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 17:38:49 +0000

OK, you are in your car looking for traffic information. Why wouldn’t they just turn their radio on?

By: Erik Schwartz

Erik Schwartz — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 17:27:16 +0000

It’s kind of a neat model. People look at their phones to get traffic info. They are distracted trying to manipulate horrid mobile UI’s and understand tiny screens. They get in accidents and tie up traffic which gives the system something to report…