Extracting trip ETA from Google Maps API possible?

Question

Is it possible to get the trip ETA (in number of minutes) and traffic data from the google maps API between two address points? Does anyone know if the ETA value reflects traffic conditions?

Answer 1

The API you are after is getDuration of the GDirections object. This will give you the number of seconds for all routes in a GDirections request. I am not sure if Google applies traffic data (if it is available). Someone else might have the answer to that?

You can get a traffic data overflow on your Google map using a GTrafficOverlay, but I am not sure about getting the underlying data. I would start looking in the Google Maps Data API.