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Quibble: Apple has been collecting realtime traffic data from Apple Maps users since year one or two of iOS.

• sigzero 14y ago
  That was when Apple Maps was actually Google Maps and using different data.
  • jpxxx 14y ago
    Correct, the tiles were from Google and Google got first cut of the route information. But Apple was the one collecting vectors, and there's no reason to think they were ever signing those over to Google.
    • georgemcbay 14y ago
      I'm sure that even if they weren't explicitly sharing the traffic information with Google then Google was capable of (roughly) inferring the data based on API calls anyway. While there would certainly be some noise there between new tile fetches, you should be able to map out routes and speeds with a high (though not exact) level of confidence, particularly in cases where you're probably the one originally laying out the suggested route.