Moscow this summer can’t breathe! And not only because of outstanding heat (+32 C), traffic in the city so heavy that I wonder why office managers haven’t gone on vacations in this period of time! Staying in this stony jungle every morning and evening I have to know how to reach my office or home without traffic problems. And thank Yandex, mostly I succeed.

Traffic 2.0

Yandex.ru – well known search engine of Runet launched a new mobile service as an additional plug-in for its Maps. This service shows on the map the traffic situation in big cities of Russia. In addition of underlining on the map trouble places with red and yellow, now Yandex takes information about traffic from drivers through their mobile phones and communicators. So drivers by means of GPS, special plug-in and with mode “traffic informer” ON – create paths that appeared as green lines on the map, showing free roads where cars are moving with the speed more than 40 km per hour.

In brief about project- we all use to see where traffic is heavy, but with the help of new UGC Yandex service we can see free ways and roads.

Social map

MirTesen.ru (it’s a small  world) – social network on the map (on Google platform).
Besides all trivia functions that almost every social network allows to its users, in mirtesen you can show the other users your favorite place, write reviews and share photos via mobile phone, hear what people talk about on 100 thousand km. And of course you have an opportunity to read responses about those places, that you want to visit. In addition you can see the rating of all places of the project selected by categories.

In brief about project – people talk about places and the places talk about people.