Google has added a new feature to its Google Maps app for Nigeria – real time traffic conditions.The traffic conditions are represented by three colour codes which are Green, Orange and Red. Green represents a free road; orange means the traffic is not too bad; and red signifies a heavy traffic.
The real time traffic update works by analyzing data transmitted by the GPS locations on people’s mobile phone. That means mobile phone location has to be turned on for this work. Google then takes that information and generates a live traffic map by calculating the speed of users along the length of the road with it.
Unfortunately this feature is only available to a few Google maps users for now.
