Windows 10 (Mobile) Maps loses traffic access

I would usually put this right down to a glitch, however site visitors knowledge has now been patchy or lacking fully in a number of international locations for over per week. So, in Home windows 10 Cellular, in the event you head into Maps and plan a route you may get ‘Visitors information is not out there’. It seems to be like that is merely W10M falling off Microsoft’s radar in {that a} server was modified at their finish and the out-of-support Cellular was left stranded. In different information, site visitors has stopped working correctly in HERE Maps/Drive+ on ye olde Home windows Telephone 8.1 too. A tragic day for Home windows telephone travellers, methinks.

The dying of Home windows 10 Cellular is, as anticipated, coming within the type of ‘a thousand cuts’, with providers and apps stopping working as time goes on. This one hurts greater than most, for the reason that maps and navigation expertise on Home windows telephones has at all times been a spotlight, not least with full offline maps from day one.

Anyway, plan a route at this time and site visitors data is most positively lacking in motion:

Totally different gadgets, completely different international locations, however the identical lack of site visitors knowledge and avoidance…

Curiously, Maps UWP on Home windows 10 Desktop continues to have site visitors entry, so it seems to be like that is an unintended impact of one thing altering server facet – that is no official shut down. However with the OS itself now formally out of help (since Jan 2020) there isn’t any one checking issues are nonetheless working at Microsoft – and nobody to complain to!

Which prompted me to examine the normally dependable HERE Maps/Drive mixture on the even-more-out-of-support Home windows Telephone 8.1. This has been faultless even by means of 2020, with HERE conserving the servers going (slightly than Microsoft). Nonetheless even this falls down now – it claims to examine ‘delay’ and to route spherical issues, however in actual fact the delay is at all times ‘0’ and there isn’t any avoidance of actual world site visitors issues:

As any UK resident will admire, heading into London in morning rush hour is not trivial and the precise delay is extra like half-hour (a minimum of). So once more it seems to be just like the circulation of information from a server to our outdated Home windows telephones isn’t fairly making it to the appliance stage.

It is potential that each of those losses might get reversed if, in actual fact, a selected server has simply fallen over and will get rebooted. However I’ve a nagging feeling that the providers have been eliminated, upgraded or modified ultimately and that site visitors knowledge is not destined to make its strategy to Maps on our telephones once more. Which is a disgrace, although symptomatic of what occurs when an OS and its ecosystem will get outdated, sadly.

Word that routing and navigation nonetheless works on each OS, i.e. by way of getting around the street community in any nation, you simply do not get any profit from reside site visitors knowledge.

(Because of AAWP reader Mark Swidler for offering the screenshot from the USA)