A Widget to Give You a Quick View of Traffic Conditions in Maps

BY GreenBot Staff

Published 18 Oct 2016

The build of Maps has a handy widget that gives you a rapid overview of the local traffic conditions. It’s in the latest version and can be added to your home screen similarly like any other widget. It will give you a bird’s eye view of your location and how the traffic stands.

Install It

To add it, touch hold on the home screen, select Widgets, then choose Traffic 1×1 from the Maps section:-

Look for the new widget in Android’s menu.

Additionally, Maps may ping you from time to time with upcoming alerts. You’ll also get a prompt to put the widget on your home screen from that screen.

Find out if the coast is clear or if you’re in for a rough time on the road battling traffic.

A few other hints appeared in a rundown by Android Police. The most notable is the live information on the popular time’s chart. Listed alongside most venues. Currently, Maps aggregates data displays. And adds it into a chart that estimates when a restaurant. Or other spot on the map is likely to be busy. The new feature, when it arrives, may give you a more accurate time look.

Real time busyness information might make and save you some time during your next outing.

This could avoid that situation where you spent 25 minutes finding a place to park. And walking 15 minutes to the restaurant. Only to find out there’s a 90-minute wait. To try out the latest version of Maps yourself, grab the latest from the Play Store or A Mirror.

The impact on you: You can never get too comfortable with the feature set of Maps because it’s often changing. Usually, it’s for the better. It continues to use a large amount of data it collects to improve what it can do. The latest version is stable. So you might want to jump on that if you want to get these new goodies first.