Many Bing services in Australia lag well behind the US site, but the local Maps implementation has just added a potentially useful feature: live traffic information from Suna for Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane.
Google Maps has incorporated traffic information for Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane, meaning that as well as planning your journey you can make an educated guess at how many snags you’ll run into on the way.
The promise that the Suna traffic information service would go virtually national in June was clearly a little ambitious, but it has finally happened. A press release from Suna claims that with Canberra now officially launched, 95% of the population have access to the service. Suna isn’t planning much further expansion, so the big thing to watch now will be improved coverage within existing areas of high traffic.
As we foreshadowed a few weeks ago, GPS traffic information provider Suna has expanded its coverage in Sydney with 50 new cameras to cover the freeway network. The service has also fitted traffic monitors in taxis to help track flow more accurately. [Suna]
Nokia has just updated the Ovi Maps application used on its higher-end phones, but for information seekers the real potential treat is in the standard web version, which now includes free traffic information for Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane.
The Suna traffic-tracking service will cover most of Australia’s key cities within weeks, but what else can we expect from this handy GPS enhancing technology? Lifehacker chatted with Adam Game, CEO of Suna’s parent company Intelematics, to find out.
Suna announced late last month that its GPS traffic information service would be expanding to most of Australia’s capital cities by the end of the year, but that turns out to have been something of an under-estimate.
Traffic information service SUNA, which already covers Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane, this week extended itself to the Gold Coast, a development which can be seen as either timely or unfortunate given this week’s weather conditions.
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