Visualizing real-time traffic patterns using HERE traffic api

While Google Maps shows live traffic, there’s no way to access the underlying traffic data. HERE technologies offers a variety of location based services including a REST API that provides traffic flow and incidents information.

HERE has a pretty powerful Freemium account, that allows up to 250K free transactions. However, while there’s some decent developer documentation, there’s a lack of online tutorials on how exactly to go about pulling traffic information and analyzing it. In this article I’m going to go through the…