Tukuk-OS🚦 Tukuk Traffic
Live flow map · community road reports · worldwide · no login
Tukuk Traffic is a live world traffic map with a community voice on top. The coloured roads are real measured traffic — green flowing, amber slow, red stopped — renewed every couple of minutes from the movement of phones in cars, so you can look at any city on Earth and see the jam before you join it. On top of that, anyone can drop a pin for the things a speed sensor cannot know: an accident, a police checkpoint, a road hazard, a closure, a speed camera, heavy rain or a fuel price. Those reports fade out automatically as they age, and drivers up-vote what they still see or down-vote what has cleared. There is no login, no account and no location tracking: the flow layer is anonymous and your own pins belong to nobody.
flowingslowstoppedtraffic colours update about every 2 minutes
1. Tap anywhere on the map to place your pin — or use “Near me” above. Current pin: no pin yet
2. Choose what you are reporting:
3. Optional details (max 140 characters):
Two layers, two different questions
The flow layer answers “is the road moving?”. It is a raster of measured speeds — the same class of reading a navigation app draws — coloured green (running near the limit), amber (slowed) and red (stopped or crawling). It covers the whole planet wherever enough phones are moving, and refreshes roughly every two minutes; a quiet rural road can show no colour at all, which is not a bug but an absence of evidence. The community layer answers “why?” and “what should I know?” — a crash, a checkpoint, a flooded stretch, a camera. A speed sensor cannot see any of those, and a driver can.
Both are served through our own server: the flow tiles are fetched and cached here, so the provider never learns who you are and a second look at the same junction costs nothing upstream. If the provider is unreachable the previous copy is still drawn instead of a blank square, and if there is nothing cached at all the page quietly falls back to a plain map with the community pins on top.
How the community keeps it honest
Every report has a time-to-live: a traffic-jam report naturally clears within an hour, police checkpoints within three, closures stay posted for a full day, and speed cameras — being fixed objects — persist for a week. The clock starts the moment you post. Up-votes from other drivers extend the clock a little (up to ten extra minutes per vote, capped at six votes’ worth), and once a report has five more down-votes than up-votes it disappears immediately. That way we never need a human moderator: the crowd trims the board by itself.
What this is not
Tukuk Traffic is not turn-by-turn navigation: we show the state of the road and let people annotate it, but we do not compute traffic-aware routes or ETAs — the free route planner gives honest free-flow times from OpenStreetMap instead. Community reports are unverified, so treat them as a heads-up alongside your own eyes and always obey local traffic laws. A traffic colour describes the last few minutes; it is a measurement, not a promise about the next five.
Data & privacy
Reports are anonymous. We do not attach any user ID, IP address or device fingerprint to a post. Coordinates are rounded to 5 decimal places (roughly a metre), and we keep at most 500 active reports on the server at any time. Old rows are removed automatically on every read and every write.