Traffic map view

Vertigo1

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Ok so I've just been setting up my Audi Connect stuff on the new car, including online traffic.

Now, aside from Google Earth, I can choose either Standard or Traffic map view. My question is what's the difference?

Traffic issues seem to show on the Standard map anyway so I don't know what the Traffic view is for - is it just different colour coding?

Also, for anyone interested, the EE 4G prepaid SIMs I've mentioned previously work fine. You need to activate them but you just use a phone or tablet connected to the car's Wifi hotspot and do it that way. No fiddling with APN settings was required and it's one of the cheapest options available at around a fiver a month for 2GB of 4G data.
 
Traffic view puts the colour coding on the roads so you can see queues etc, not just single points where an accident has happened and no idea how long the tailback is.
 
Hmm, well even in standard view it still seems to show the stretch of road that's affected, with the hatched line alongside the road like I used to get with my previous car (which only had TMC, not online traffic too).

Basically I couldn't see any difference between the two aside from the colours - maybe I need to do a bit more testing and find a few more incidents on the map and compare how they look.

Still not sure what the online traffic does above TMC - presumably just has more detail, especially for minor roads.
 
I'm still confused after reading those links. The relationship between the traffic problems shown when I click the Traffic button and the red/white on the map seems non-existent. I had guessed that the incidents listed on the traffic tab were the old school TMC stuff, and the map coding was sourced from a combination of TMC and the other internet source, whatever it is. I've been in a jam where the map is clearly showing me the hatched red/white but there's no sign of it in the text when I click traffic, that just bangs on about stuff miles away. Seems to be that the online traffic data is pretty good (similar to TomTom live traffic which I've relied on for years) but you only find out about it when you're stuck in it. I know you can do the dynamic re-routing but from experience with the TomTom that is regularly a bad idea.
 
I have found the dynamic routing to be pretty good. Or rather, when I decide not to listen to it, I've found myself stuck for hours in a jam!
 
Yeah I gave up trying to second-guess it years ago - just do as you're told :)
 
I have it muted but press the "Nav i" button on the wheel when i'm in a pickle.
 
I have it muted but press the "Nav i" button on the wheel when i'm in a pickle.

Same. Can't be bothered to listen to her all the time. Ruins the music I'm trying to listen to! :rock:
 
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