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How does this take traffic into account? It is clever and I enjoyed the read, but it is essentially doing some of the work GMaps is doing for you yourself, losi
by raz32dust 7y ago
How does this take traffic into account? It is clever and I enjoyed the read, but it is essentially doing some of the work GMaps is doing for you yourself, losing some accuracy in the process. That's probably a great trade-off in this case but not always.
- giovannibonetti 7y agoAs mentioned in the article, they still get estimates from the Directions API, which takes traffic into account. However, instead of getting the ETA for each bus they get it for the path, apply some clever interpolation and refresh the base data from the API once a while