What Does Nashville Have That Knoxville Doesn’t
What does Nashville have that Knoxville doesn’t? There are certainly a number of ways to answer this question, but since I filed this post in the Technology category I am going to answer with Google Traffic Maps.
Nashville is lucky enough to be one of the 30 cities that Google has selected to create a traffic layer mashup. The traffic layer, which is denoted by the querystring variable layer and a value of t (&layer=t) is how you can request the presence of this added layer. Unfortunately for Knoxville, Google has no traffic data, but I am going to figure out what needs to be done to request being added to the list.
To view an example of what the traffic layer looks like live, here is Nashville’s traffic overlay. Notice the extra button at the top right which allows you to toggle the traffic layer on or off. Now that is neat stuff, and while this is a week or so old, I haven’t heard much chatter about this neat new feature. Hopefully Knoxville TN will make Google’s list soon. And my next Google Maps prediction is that we will soon see a weather mashup. Imagine Knoxville TN weather on a Google Map, now that would be cool.
