Google Maps + Traffic on your mobile device

Jason Tucker

Jul 25, 2006 — 1 min read

“Reuters is covering the newest offering from Google: real-time traffic mapping on your cell phone. Now you can check how the traffic is ahead of you, of course as long as you don’t cause the traffic incident yourself by checking the local issues on your cell phone while driving. Point your cell phone browser to http://google.com/gmm to get your local traffic maps if you live within one of the 30 U.S. cities where this is available.”

So they have added support for my Blackberry 7100i but when you tell it to load the traffic info it shows a warning telling me that “Traffic loads slowly on this device.” eh, whatever.

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