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Had to stop using it for longer trips. Unfortunately the traffic data from Google is kinda vital. :(
It isn't vital; it's convenient.
i assume it's actually vital in places like the US, where roads aren't designed so much as they grow like a fungus and thus you can quite literally have kilometers of traffic standing completely still.
Yeah especially on a long drive where due to traffic info I can save 30-45 mins or more on some occasions, I’ll take the privacy hit.
When you are travelling for 9 hours with little kids, avoiding a long traffic jam and saving an hour is vital
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Yeah, to avoid the cops
If anyone wants an interesting project I've been thinking you could use all those DOT cameras to generate rough traffic data without a bunch of location data. But it'd definitely be tricky to differentiate traffic from cars stopped at a light as well as dealing with when cameras are pivoted.