#Traffic from my location to home for free#
#Traffic from my location to home install#
#Traffic from my location to home drivers#
#Traffic from my location to home software#

We understand that many people would be concerned about telling the world how fast their car was moving if they also had to tell the world where they were going, so we built privacy protections in from the start. Google is fortunate to have a lot of people using our products, and that scale helps make our products better. Some phones, such as the T-Mobile myTouch 3G and the Palm Pre, come with Google Maps and traffic crowdsourcing pre-installed (the iPhone Maps application, however, does not support traffic crowdsourcing). Google Maps is free and works with most cell phones, and the number of cell phones with GPS is rising every day.

#Traffic from my location to home software#

There's no extra device to plug into your car and no extra software to buy.

#Traffic from my location to home install#

We achieve scale by making Google Maps for mobile easy to install and use, and by making it easy for people to provide information about their own vehicle speed. But for us to really make it work, we had to solve problems of scale (because you can't get useful traffic results until you have a LOT of devices reporting their speeds) and privacy (because we don't want anybody to be able to analyze Google's traffic data to see the movement of a particular phone, even when that phone is completely anonymous). Ever since GPS location started coming to mainstream devices, people have been thinking of ways to use it to figure out how fast the traffic is moving. This idea, which we geeks call 'crowdsourcing,' isn't new. Imagine if you knew the exact traffic speed on every road in the city - every intersection, backstreet and freeway on-ramp - and how that would affect the way you drive, help the environment and impact the way our government makes road planning decisions. This is exactly the kind of technology that we love at Google because it's so easy for a single person to help out, but can be incredibly powerful when a lot of people use it together. We're able to do this thanks in no small part to the data contributed by our users. highways and arterials when data is available. This week we're expanding our traffic layer to cover all U.S. It takes almost zero effort on your part - just turn on Google Maps for mobile before starting your car - and the more people that participate, the better the resulting traffic reports get for everybody.

#Traffic from my location to home for free#

We continuously combine this data and send it back to you for free in the Google Maps traffic layers. When we combine your speed with the speed of other phones on the road, across thousands of phones moving around a city at any given time, we can get a pretty good picture of live traffic conditions. When you choose to enable Google Maps with My Location, your phone sends anonymous bits of data back to Google describing how fast you're moving. If you use Google Maps for mobile with GPS enabled on your phone, that's exactly what you can do. But if everybody on the road, all at once, could tell the world how fast their car is moving, and we could make it easy for anybody to check that information on their computer or cell phone, well - then we'd be getting somewhere. Of course, you can't just get on the phone and call everybody, and your one traffic report from your one spot on the road might not help much anyway.

#Traffic from my location to home drivers#

What if you could do a little something to improve the world during your daily drive to work? Here are a few ideas: tell everybody in the city when you're stuck in slow-moving traffic warn the drivers on the freeway behind you that they should consider an alternate route tell the people still at home that they should spend another ten minutes reading the morning news before they leave for work tell your city government that they might want to change the timing of that traffic light at the highway on-ramp. This post is the latest in an ongoing series about how we harness the data we collect to improve our products and services for our users.