The idea of crowd-sourcing is nothing new, however, just this week Google has officially announced that users of their Mobile maps service (google maps mobile) have been opting in to share traffic information. The idea is that GMaps mobile users can optionally elect to share their current location (I’m not exactly sure how the MyLocation setting differes from the Latitude sharing setting), enabling Google to store and analyze traffic trends and conditions based on the user’s speed and movements. Details were released this week on the Google Blog – see more here
