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Apr20
Droid watches Traffic
Filed under: WiFi;No Commentsby Chris Guld, www.GeeksOnTour.com: We were recently at a State Park in Georgia (Fort McAllister – a wonderful park) when a fellow traveler advised us that we might want to avoid I-95 on our way south. “There is a lot of construction on I-95 between here and Florida”, he said.
We heeded his warning, but also have our own reluctance to travel on two lane roads with a lot of stop and go. So, we decided to check the map on our Droid app phone. It has a layer you can turn on for Traffic information. Here’s what we saw:
You can click on the picture for a larger image. The fat green line going vertical is I-95. If traffic was moving slowly it would be colored yellow or even red. This is real time traffic data.
We decided to take I-95 after all. Yes, there was definitely construction going on, but it did not slow down traffic
The Droid continues to delight and amaze us. If you have a Motorola Droid from Verizon, you can see this traffic feature by touching the ‘Map’ app icon (it comes with your phone, it’s Google Maps – all free.) Once the map is displayed, then touch the menu button on the Droid -
and you’ll see an option for ‘Layers.’ Traffic is one of the layers you can turn on. Touch it, and you’ll see the green checkmark – and you’ll be back at the map with the traffic data showing up.
If you don’t have the Droid, do you use any other traffic data tool?
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