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Nega developer
Nega developer

Reputation: 269

Get Traffic Jam Google Maps API

Is it possible to get a response (true or false) if are a traffic jam from your position to your destination, using google maps android API? Or using google maps web api?

Can not find anythink about that.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 4794

Answers (1)

xomena
xomena

Reputation: 32178

I believe there is no direct Google endpoint that can answer this question. However, you can implement a workaround using a Distance Matrix API web service or Directions API web service. If you specify a departure time in the request, the response will contain fields duration and duration_in_traffic. So you can figure out if duration_in_traffic is much bigger than duration and decide if there is a traffic jam somewhere on this route.

For example,

I execute Distance Matrix API request for two points in Barcelona

https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/distancematrix/json?origins=av%20Diagonal%20198%2C%20Barcelona&destinations=plaza%20Espa%C3%B1a%2C%20Barcelona&departure_time=now&key=MY_API_KEY

The response is

{
  "destination_addresses":[
    "Av. del Paraŀlel, s/n, 08015 Barcelona, Spain"
  ],
  "origin_addresses":[
    "Avinguda Diagonal, 198, 08018 Barcelona, Spain"
  ],
  "rows":[
    {
      "elements":[
        {
          "distance":{
            "text":"6.0 km",
            "value":6049
          },
          "duration":{
            "text":"17 mins",
            "value":1035
          },
          "duration_in_traffic":{
            "text":"19 mins",
            "value":1134
          },
          "status":"OK"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "status":"OK"
}

Comparing duration_in_traffic and duration from my response I can say that currently there are no traffic jams on this route.

I hope this helps!

Upvotes: 2

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