How does Google collect data for Google maps?

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How Google Maps gets you places faster. When you use the Google Maps app, your phone sends anonymous bits of data about your location back to Google. This is combined with data from people around you to recognize traffic patterns. read more

Google collect data from your device only using Location history settings. As this is by-default on, no body initially look for it and disable it. So, Google get all location visiting by you whenever your device location is on. Google saved your location history with your Logged In google Account. read more

With all of those the people and data, Google’s approach is to take the highest quality raw map data, and successively clean it up with satellite and aerial imagery, and their own Street View panoramic, street-level imagery. Most of this is done with Google’s own internal, homegrown, mapping tool, Atlas. read more

If Google Maps doesn't have enough data to estimate the traffic flow for a particular section of road, that section will appear in gray on the traffic layers.With its acquisition of Waze in 2013, Google added a human element to its traffic calculations. read more