Google has expanded its live traffic coverage of Google Maps service in India in six new Indian cities including Panaji, Vadodara, Jaipur, Chandigarh, Ahmedabad and Gandhinagar, reports AndroidOS.in. This is apart from the six Indian cities in which Google offered traffic data earlier. This is a part of an expansion of live traffic coverage in 11 countries including India, Brazil, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, Russia, Spain, and the United States and introduced live traffic data in United Arab Emirates and Kazakhstan. Note that Google doesn't offer a direct way to check which Indian cities have got live traffic data on Google Maps Android app at the time of writing this article and the web version suggests that it is offering live traffic data only in six Indian cities, however we noticed that when one zooms into any one of the cities mentioned above, one can view live traffic data for that city. We also noticed that Google currently offers live traffic data for the above mentioned cities on its search engine Google.com, a feature which was launched in September 2012. Voice Navigation in India: In September 2012, Google had officially rolled out its voice navigation service to India, starting with Google Maps for Android. Coinciding with this launch, the company had also started offering live traffic data for six Indian Cities including New Delhi, Mumbai, Pune, Hyderabad, Bangalore and Chennai. This live traffic data was available on the web version, Android Maps app, and the pre-iOS 6 default Google Maps app, although the navigation service was…
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