The key for Google Traffic updates to work correctly is how mobile phones has to be capable of sending this data, so the phone operating system for the most part has to be an android or iPhone (maybe windows). So if you are on the highway and your location only changed 5 meters in the past minute, and you have thousands of people in the same region with the same speed results it means there is probably users stuck in traffic. Traffic detection technology uses a cell phones location to determine whether there is a smooth traffic or not. When Google Maps combine your speed with the speed of other phones on the road, across thousands of phones moving around a city at any given time, It can get a pretty good picture of live traffic conditions. By calculating the speed of users along a length of road, Google is able to generate a live traffic map. Google Maps displays traffic conditions in real-time on major roads and highways in over 50 countries. Google Traffic works by analyzing the GPS-determined locations transmitted to Google by a large number of mobile phone users.

Now By2ollak is facing Google Maps in direct competition and it will be interesting to see how a successful Egyptian start-up update itself to keep the widely used application ahead of the game. 2011 Google MENA has announced its initiative named, to give one Egyptian entrepreneur the chance to get their startup off the ground, with the help of a $200,000 seed investment from Google. The ‘ Start with Google’ (or Ebda2 in Arabic) Prize went to By2ollak as attempting to solve a severe traffic problem in Egypt by crowd-sourcing traffic conditions. They tell you which routes to avoid and display common routes we travel dailyĪfter 5 years, By2ollak is available now on all major mobile platforms and currently has around 1 Million registered users, got 350K+ FacebookFans and 360K+ TwitterFollowers.Īlso we should mention that in Sep. Related Article ➤ Bey2ollak App Announces Expansion to KSA at 5th Year Anniversaryīey2ollakcreated by five cousins, and started out as a BlackBerry app, On Bey2ollak launch dated 10/10/10 it got more than 5,000 registered users on the 1st day which reflects the need for such an application that can provide a solution to cover the daily hectic traffic in the Egyptian still far better than Google Maps traffic in Egypt. After the Google Traffic feature’s first launch in 2007, Google Maps has finally launched Google Traffic feature to provide real-time updates but the Egyptians did not wait Google feature for too-long and already created By2ollakas a local solutions based on a Cross Platform Mobile application for people to exchange info about traffic that uses the power of crowd-sourcing, social interaction, localization and above all simplicity with the vision of providing Egyptian users with the ideal road companion app on their everyday journey!

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