See the Road Ahead with Traffic Camera Images on Bing Maps

See the Road Ahead with Traffic Camera Images on Bing Maps

The Bing Maps Routing and Traffic Team is constantly working to make navigation and route planning easier! Hot on the heels of our previous announcement about traffic coloring, the Bing Maps team is proud to announce that we have made it possible for users to access traffic camera images along a planned driving route!
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55 countries with Real Time Traffic in Bing Maps

55 countries with Real Time Traffic in Bing Maps

The Bing Maps team is happy to announce the real-time traffic flow data is now available in 55 countries. Bing Maps uses traffic flow data in two ways. The first is to provide real-time and predictive route calculations. The second method is a traffic overlay of color coded roads on the map to indicate the real-time flow of traffic.
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Bing Maps provides more accurate trip times worldwide

Bing Maps provides more accurate trip times worldwide

Bing Maps now provides more accurate trip times when calculating directions around the globe. Bing Maps now supports traffic-aware routing worldwide, including Clearflow technology that predicts traffic on roads that do not provide live traffic data.
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“Carmaggedon II”: Bing Maps is Your Ben Affleck

“Carmaggedon II”: Bing Maps is Your Ben Affleck

I was pinged late yesterday by the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority about this whole “Carmaggedon” nightmare going on in LA this weekend. Being a SoCal native, I empathized with just how horrible this is going to be. Seriously…horrible. Meanwhile, in Seattle, I’m smiling since I don’t have to deal with it; but, that’s neither here nor there.
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