Google Maps provides estimated arrival/travel times, and indicates when there is less or more congestion on your route. The live traffic widget will be an extra.

Then there’s the privacy angle. For a Google Maps widget to offer location-based information at any time, you need to let the app access your location even when you’re not using the app.

We discovered 3 impressive new widgets today, from Google, Blinkx and 30 Boxes, and we decided to write about all of them in one post.

The widget is updated when you load it, so there’s no need to refresh it manually. When the widget is in focus, you should see up-to-date traffic information, all without any input on your side.

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Google Maps already included some iOS widgets, but they were only available on the old widget page. Back then, you had access to four different widgets for Google Maps, including Traffic , Transit ...

There you have it—Google Maps in the Address Book widget, easily reversible, and you haven’t even modified the standard widget at all! Macworld is your best source for all things Apple.

Google Maps is introducing a new widget for Android that will be another use for the functionality that helped make a name for Waze, the other driving and mapping app that Google acquired nearly a ...