Road users in Penang, Melaka and Ipoh will now be able to use Google Maps to check on traffic conditions. The service is an extension to the Traffic layer introduced by Google Malaysia earlier in the year for the Klang Valley.
Google’s Traffic layer provides data about real time road congestion right on the map in order to help users find how to get to where they need to go as quickly as possible.
Colours are overlapped onto roads — red for bumper-to-bumper traffic, yellow for slow moving transit and green for free flowing traffic — so that users can easily determine the level of congestion they will face.
The traffic data shown on Google Maps comes from a variety of sources, including government departments of transportation, private data providers, and users of Google Maps for mobile who contribute anonymous speed information through its traffic crowdsourcing feature.
Traffic data is refreshed every few minutes with the most recent known conditions – the addition should prove a boon for those in these three new areas, especially those with long daily commutes.
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Finally, in Penang!
Google map thumb up while Digi service thumb down. While waiting for map loading, the car already reach the traffic.
ipoh where got traffic jam one, no use la in ipoh..
what about JB???? how did melaka (of all states) and ipoh get it ahead of JB??
Maybe Melaka & Ipoh have higher concentration of Android phone users per sq km than JB has…
Tried it today along Penang bridge during peak hours – pretty accurate, I’d say.
Thanks PT for highlighting this..
It only makes sense to have this activated in urban areas where density (of smartphone users) is high – to provide a more reliable data set from the geolocation functionalities (In Klang Valley it is fricking accurate) and also to serve more users who are more likely to use the Google Maps traffic layer functionality. I’m looking forward to allowing other “pushed” crowdsource functionality in future (ie, reporting on roadblocks and accidents like Waze).
where is navigation?
just use waze
better