Like the other guy said. I also have 3 viable routes to work so I change depending on traffic and some of those routes have their own variations.
I live close to a ring motorway so I can get on to work and drive east or west and there is a two mile difference over 40 miles. Or I can take the road route and save a lot of stop start on the motorway and takes a little longer but is less miles.
Traffic estimates don’t depend on when they last visited your street. They actually harvest that data from Android and other Google maps (and Waze) users speeds on the road in near real-time. So if you have people on your road chances are Google can tell how fast roughly half of them are going and algorithmically determine if that’s on foot, bike, car, etc to calculate traffic estimates.
Like the other guy said. I also have 3 viable routes to work so I change depending on traffic and some of those routes have their own variations.
I live close to a ring motorway so I can get on to work and drive east or west and there is a two mile difference over 40 miles. Or I can take the road route and save a lot of stop start on the motorway and takes a little longer but is less miles.
I guess it is dependent on how much of a shit google gives for your area. Around here, I think the last time they took any data was 10 ish years ago.
Edit: Just checked my house, May 2013 was the last update on my street.
Traffic estimates don’t depend on when they last visited your street. They actually harvest that data from Android and other Google maps (and Waze) users speeds on the road in near real-time. So if you have people on your road chances are Google can tell how fast roughly half of them are going and algorithmically determine if that’s on foot, bike, car, etc to calculate traffic estimates.
Yes, it is real time tracking. But it still is wrong in my area.
Good thing its not my mess to fix.