New York Times: Google Maps Workers Say They Can’t Afford the Trip Back to the Office
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Mind the gaps: will we go back to public transport after Covid? (The Guardian)
The Guardian: Mind the gaps: will we go back to public transport after Covid?. “When lockdown emptied the UK’s trains and buses, their operators’ revenues collapsed. Now home working and cycling could become a permanent threat to their finances.”
Bing Blog: See the Road Ahead with Traffic Camera Images on Bing Maps
Bing Blog: 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! You can now see traffic camera icons along a short to moderate-length route. By clicking on a traffic camera icon, you can view the latest image from the traffic camera at that location.”
CNET: Google Maps will now show you where the nearest Lime scooter is
CNET: Google Maps will now show you where the nearest Lime scooter is. “Google said Thursday that it’s teaming up with Lime to include electric scooters in Google Maps directions. Now, when you navigate to a destination using the Maps app, Google will also show you where the nearest Lime scooter, bike or e-bike is located. The app will tell you how long it will take for you to walk to the rentable scooter, give you an estimate of the ride cost and calculate how long the overall trip will take.”
CTV: Google Maps’ new feature shows exactly where bus or train is in real time
CTV: Google Maps’ new feature shows exactly where bus or train is in real time. “Google Maps is launching a new commute tab this week, aimed at helping users shave time and stress from their daily commute to work. Instead of wolfing down your breakfast, spilling coffee on your pants, and sprinting for the train or subway only to find yourself caught in a 15-minute delay, commuters can consult the new tab to see exactly where their bus or train is on the map in real time.”
WZZM: Website would list potholes dotting Michigan highways
WZZM: Website would list potholes dotting Michigan highways. “Want to avoid rim-busting potholes on your way into work? There may be an app for that. A house bill introduced this week calls for an online database that lists potholes on Michigan highways. While the Michigan Department of Transportation already takes pothole reports, a bill introduced by Rep. Leslie Love, D-Detroit, would put that information online.”
Local Transport Today: Uber launches London journey time database
Local Transport Today: Uber launches London journey time database. “Uber has launched a free to access web-based database of road journey time data for London based on aggregated Uber journeys. Uber Movement for London does not provide information about Ubers’ movements around London. Rather it is a database of aggregate journey time data, which does not reveal how many trips have been aggregated in order to answer your query.”
Ars Technica: Google Maps finally gets step-by-step transit navigation
Ars Technica: Google Maps finally gets step-by-step transit navigation. “Google Maps is an awesome app for getting you where you need to go, but lately the app has treated transit directions like a second-class citizen. For years, driving, walking, and biking directions have had a ‘navigation’ mode, which shows you live map and gives you turn-by-turn directions. Transit has doesn’t have a ‘navigate’ mode, though—it only ever shows a flat list of directions. Today, Google is finally adding an actionable navigation mode to transit directions.”
Ars Technica: Google Maps adds color to help you hone in on points of interest
Ars Technica: Google Maps adds color to help you hone in on points of interest. “Google is rolling out a new look for Points of Interest (POI) on Google Maps. These are the little business location icons that pop up when you’re browsing the map or viewing search results. Google says it has updated Maps to ‘better highlight the information most relevant to each experience (think gas stations for navigation, train stations for transit, and so on).’ You probably don’t care about local gas stations when you’re looking up subway locations, so Maps will be smarter about which icons it shows you.”
Revved Up About #Roadrage: Analyzing Over 100,000 Instagram Posts That Mention #Roadrage (Auto Insurance Center)
Auto Insurance Center: Revved Up About #Roadrage: Analyzing Over 100,000 Instagram Posts That Mention #Roadrage. “Regardless of how even-keeled you might be under normal circumstances, it’s human nature for a little bit of road rage to bubble up to the surface in these moments of irritation. But what’s the limit, and when does it go too far? We looked at over 100,000 Instagram posts since 2011 tagged with #RoadRage to better understand that times of year when other people and circumstances are most likely to get under our skin as drivers, along with the cities and states with the worst people in which to share the road. Continue reading to see what we learned.”
Digital Trends: Uber Movement Is A Newly Released Treasure Trove Of Data For City Officials
Oooooo. Digital Trends: Uber Movement Is A Newly Released Treasure Trove Of Data For City Officials . ” At the beginning of the year, the San Francisco-based company made available a tome of data based upon countless rides taken by its millions of customers each and every day. Uber Movement includes data that provides ‘detailed historical insights [that] make it possible to measure the impact of road improvements, major events, new transit lines, and more.’ Now, Uber has made this information available for residents of a number of cities, including Bogota, Colombia; Manila, The Philippines; Sydney, Australia; Boston, and Washington, D.C. If you check out the web app, you can look into average travel times between neighborhoods, and also take a closer look at ETAs depending on time of day and day of the week.”
BetaNews: Google Maps tells you the best time to start your journey
BetaNews: Google Maps tells you the best time to start your journey. “Time your departure time wrong, and even the simplest of journeys can end up taking far longer than it was meant to. Hit traffic, and your journey time could be doubled — or worse. A new feature of Google Maps aims to eliminate this problem.”