According , there is a "traffic jam" at 3:15 in the morning on the road from Belgorod, Russia to the Ukrainian border. It starts *exactly* where we saw a Russian formation of armor and IFV/APCs show up yesterday.
Someone's on the move.
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To clear up a misconception: The traffic data is most likely NOT from soldiers carrying smartphones. Instead, civilians are probably getting stuck at roadblocks and is recording that.
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The "traffic jam" now stretches to the border with Ukraine. and have been sitting here watching creep down the road.
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The only reason we were looking at the traffic near Belgorod is because yesterday captured a SAR image of a newly arrived Russian unit with tanks and other vehicles. What struck us about this image is that the vehicles were lined up in columns, ready to move.
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Don't hold your breath, but it appears that traffic jam has moved across the border
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I would imagine this is the end of our ability to track movement using , as I don't think many civilians are going to be trying to access these roads. We may see traffic jams, however, if people try to flee advancing Russian units.
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Didn’t have “Google maps will tip off an invasion force” on my lifetime bingo sheet
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Don’t these traffic maps come from users cell phone data?
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Well, this information comes from background location data, not active use. And it might not even be from Google apps - it could be crossfeed from some other app (say, weather?) selling location data to GMaps!
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