Filed under: Internet, Web services, AOL, Search, web 2.0
MapQuest adds real-time traffic info
One thing that MapQuest has added that Google Maps lacks is construction and incident alerts. If you hover your mouse over the exclamation points or construction icons you can find about traffic accidents and other conditions that could affect your travel time. Clicking on the icons brings up more detailed information.

I don't know if this is a labor of love or merely the brainchild of four very gifted games designers, but Level Up is a really weird mash-up of gaming elements that you have probably never seen in a Flash game before.
Let's start with the premise itself: Groundhog Day meets Memento. The game experience revolves around 'days': you explore the world and the clock slowly ticks towards the evening. You bounce around picking up gems and talking to the denizens of 'Level Upland'. Eventually you feel tired and head back to ...
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
jr said 11:31AM on 3-18-2008
Wow, cool. Traffic event info. So you're saying it's just like Yahoo! Maps from over two years ago.
http://maps.yahoo.com/#mvt=m&lat=37.338475&lon=-121.885794&mag=6&trf=1
Reply
michael said 2:57PM on 3-18-2008
Lol. Live Maps had traffic features WITH construction and incident alerts ever since it was made. Which wasn't even long ago.
It's nice to see MapQuest finally catching up in the last few years though.
Reply
Peter said 8:45PM on 3-18-2008
Actually, if you compare the coverage between Yahoo, Google, Microsoft and MapQuest, it's significtly different. Check out New York for example. It's clear MapQuest has much more miles traffic information and far more cities of data than the other sites do.
Reply