{"id":28016,"date":"2020-02-03T15:52:25","date_gmt":"2020-02-03T20:52:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=28016"},"modified":"2020-02-03T15:52:25","modified_gmt":"2020-02-03T20:52:25","slug":"google-maps-traffic-hack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/03\/google-maps-traffic-hack\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Maps Traffic Hack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kottke.org\/20\/02\/hacking-google-a-red-handcart-for-red-roads\">Jason Kottke<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StevenJCrowley\/status\/1223977380794064897\">Steve Crowley<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=22216821\">Hacker News<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/kottke.org\/20\/02\/hacking-google-a-red-handcart-for-red-roads\"><p>You&rsquo;ve got to love little artistic hacks like this. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.simonweckert.com\/googlemapshacks.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Simon Weckert put 99 second-hand smartphones in a red handcart<\/a> and walked around a few blocks in Berlin. Each phone was running Google Maps and being tracked for traffic measurements. Their presence and slow rolling around the streets caused Google to display a traffic jam.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jason Kottke (Steve Crowley, Hacker News): You&rsquo;ve got to love little artistic hacks like this. Simon Weckert put 99 second-hand smartphones in a red handcart and walked around a few blocks in Berlin. Each phone was running Google Maps and being tracked for traffic measurements. Their presence and slow rolling around the streets caused Google [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2020-02-03T20:52:28Z","apple_news_api_id":"fcd2fd5d-49d0-490e-934a-8cfdfa3cfa6e","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2020-02-03T20:52:28Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/A_NL9XUnQSQ6TSoz9-jz6bg","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[248,245,432,31,106,96],"class_list":["post-28016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-android","tag-googlemaps","tag-gps","tag-ios","tag-maps","tag-web"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28016"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28017,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28016\/revisions\/28017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}