Get traffic map 1.0 free download

 
The problem: My wife and I were looking at locations to move to in the San Francisco Bay Area, and we wanted to figure out how bad our commutes would tend to be.

The solution: An AppleScript that opens a Google Map centered on the Bay Area with the traffic information layer turned on. It then takes a screenshot and saves it in the "Traffic" folder on the desktop, with the date and time as part of the file name. Finally, it opens the screenshot in Graphic Converter and crops it so just the map is visible.

We set this script to run every 15 minutes from 7-9am and 4-6pm on weekdays using the following cron command:
0,15,30,45 7,8,16,17 - - 1-5 /usr/bin/osascript /Users/ian/Desktop/Traffic/GetTrafficMap.scpt

We left it to run for 4 weeks. After we had 20 days worth of data, we used Photoshop to take all the shots from each time of day (e.g. 7:45am), and combine them into a composite image (20 layers, each 5% transparency) to give an "average" view of traffic at that time of day.
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