At a recent Google press conference to launch real time scheduling information and mapping for public transport in Perth senior Google executives said that the owners of real time data including traffic camera video was not available as the owners of the data were holding back on supplying the data.
By 2013, 34 percent of all personal navigation devices (PNDs) worldwide will offer mobile phone or Wi-Fi-connected services such as real-time traffic, live local searches or updatable maps, according to ABI Research.
Principal analyst Dominique Bonte said 1.2 million PNDs will offer cellular or Wi-Fi connectivity worldwide in 2008, compared with 43 million in 2013.
