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Predicting the Future with Google Maps APIs

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Can someone please explain what this means:

> up to now, [traffic predictions] [were] limited to Google Maps for Work customers only.

> Today [...] we’re making all traffic features in Directions API and Distance Matrix API available under our Standard Plan, and increasing the waypoint limit in Directions API for these developers from 8 to 23 waypoints. (Traffic features and higher waypoint limits in the JavaScript Maps API are available to Google Maps for Work customers for now.)

Does it mean that the new traffic predictions, as well as the increased waypoints limits, are not accessible via the JavaScript API except for Google Maps for Work customers, but they are accessible to the general public via some other API? What is the non-JavaScript Maps API?

    Does it mean that the new traffic predictions, as well as the
    increased waypoints limits, are not accessible via the JavaScript API
    except for Google Maps for Work customers, but they are accessible to
    the general public via some other API?

It appears so, but they state "for now" so I'm guessing it will be available (hopefully) soon.

    What is the non-JavaScript Maps API?

There are Java and Python client libraries: https://developers.google.com/maps/web-services/client-libra...

Wow, I just thought about it this morning due I miscalculated the commute time from home to a far place I don't usually commute. Checking on traveling time last night didn't give me when factor in the morning traffic. I only wished if Google gets smarter so travel planning can be more realistic.

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