MapQuest adds real-time traffic info

Posted Mar 18th 2008 9:00AM by Brad Linder
Filed under: Internet, Web services, AOL, Search, web 2.0

MapQuest has finally gotten around to adding a feature that Google Maps has had for over a year: real-time traffic info. When you search for a location or driving directions on MapQuest, all you have to do is click the traffic button in the upper left corner of the screen and all of the major roads will be highlighted with color codes showing the traffic conditions.

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.

Tags: google-maps, mapquest, maps, traffic

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

3-18-2008 @ 11:31AM

jr said...

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

3-18-2008 @ 2:57PM

michael said...

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.

3-18-2008 @ 8:45PM

Peter said...

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.

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