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Summary: How to get traffic conditions in Google Maps; learn more about Google features and interfaces in this free instructional video.

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Drew Noah has a bachelor's degree in Radio, Television, and Film from the University of Texas in Austin. He has been an Expert Village filmmaker for over two years. He currently...read more

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"MAN: So another really cool thing about Google Maps is they added this traffic view, which means, basically, you can just go to Google Maps in the morning and check out the traffic from there. It's a pretty cool feature. Just turn it on. Right now, they offer over 30 major U.S. cities. I read so. It's only in major cities for right now, but it's actually going to be really useful if you do live in a major city. So let's just-let me click on zoom-in. And you'll know if you have traffic view in your city because if you don't, this will not be available when you're on your map. But if you do, you just turn it on, it will go bold, and now you can see the traffic. So to give you the specifics of how this works and exactly what the colors represent, green is more than 50 miles an hour, yellow is 25 to 50, and red is less than 25. So basically, you're getting a lot of congestion if it's red. Like looking at this map 'cause there's one part of this toll way right here is red. Yellow is probably stop and go, 25 to 50. And then, green is all clear. So it's pretty easy. They use the yellow or green--or red, yellow and green kind of set up, makes it really easy. So just to turn that on, you just click it right there, and then you can look around. And it's only on like highways right now, like major roads, so don't expect to see it on just little side streets or anything. But this is a really useful feature of Google Maps and just, I mean, you don't think that you can go to a maps program to find the traffic, but this is just another great feature that Google has added, and a cool thing to, maybe, check in the mornings, or before you leave work, and see what the traffic is going to be like. So that's the traffic view in Google Maps."

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