- If you use

Google Maps

with My Location you can help contribute to the available traffic information.

- Tiny bits of anonymous information, like your cars speed, will be sent to Google.

- By bringing together this information from multiple phones Google can give all of us a better picture of the traffic.

-

Google Maps

with My Location will now

display traffic information

for US highways and primary roads leading to those highways.

- This concept is called "

crowdsourcing

" because it uses bits of information from a "crowd" of people to provide better information for all.