Google Maps Secrets: How Exactly Does Google Maps Work?

How Google Maps work? How does Google Maps know about the traffic conditions? How is it so accurate about predicting traffic conditions? This is a short, animated videos for kids and laymen to understand the science and technology that goes behind the working of Google Maps.

If you have a smartphone and travel frequently, it's almost impossible that you haven't used Google Maps. It's an amazingly powerful app that not only acts as a standard GPS device and directs you places, but also gives you recommendations regarding the quickest routes to reach your chosen destinations. Let's take a look at how the super popular navigation app works.

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References:

https://googleblog.blogspot.in/2009/08/bright-side-of-sitting-in-traffic.html https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/handle/2027.42/102509/102984.pdf https://rucore.libraries.rutgers.edu/rutgers-lib/44227/PDF/1/ http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/how-does-google-maps-predict-traffic.htm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Traffic

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