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As the New York Times is reporting today, a new version of Live Search Maps will be online later today. Among the new features is the expansion of our traffic flow coverage via machine learning techniques-

The new service’s software technology, called Clearflow, was developed over the last five years by a group of artificial-intelligence researchers at the company’s Microsoft Research laboratories. It is an ambitious attempt to apply machine-learning techniques to the problem of traffic congestion. The system is intended to reflect the complex traffic interactions that occur as traffic backs up on freeways and spills over onto city streets.

Eric Horvitz of MSR has been working on related technologies for years and its great to see it make it into Live Maps. Congrats to Eric and his colleagues for getting this technology out of the lab and into peoples hands. I'll have more details on this feature as well as all the other new stuff later today when the new site is live. I wont's say much more now other than my favorite GeoRSS related feature will be included - Neighborhood subscriptions, which lets you define a chunk of Earth and pluck an RSS feed for all activity on the GeoWeb contained within it.

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Wow, this looks very promising. Hopefully it will work well in real life. And hopefully it will eventually be incorporated even in future versions of Microsoft Streets & Trips.

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