{"id":837025,"date":"2024-07-25T09:18:05","date_gmt":"2024-07-25T03:48:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=837025"},"modified":"2024-07-25T09:51:05","modified_gmt":"2024-07-25T04:21:05","slug":"google-maps-location-in-chennai-warns-motorists-of-police-checkpoints","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/07\/25\/google-maps-location-in-chennai-warns-motorists-of-police-checkpoints\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Maps location in Chennai warns motorists of police checkpoints"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Chennai, an innovative utilization of technology has emerged as a way for commuters to keep track of traffic police checkpoints. A user on Google Maps has marked a police checkpoint near Phoenix Mall to let motorists know that there are police officers there. The area tag, written in Tamil, means &#8220;Police are there, wear a helmet,&#8221; serving as an alert for drivers to comply with traffic rules. <\/p>\n<p>After a screenshot of the location tag was shared on the social media platform X, this novel strategy for raising community awareness received a lot of attention. The post quickly got more than 260,000 views and got a lot of funny and nice comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Chennai, an innovative utilization of technology has emerged as a way for commuters to keep track of traffic police checkpoints. A user on Google Maps has marked a police checkpoint near Phoenix Mall to let motorists know that there are police officers there. The area tag, written in Tamil, means &#8220;Police are there, wear a helmet,&#8221; serving as an alert for drivers to comply with traffic rules. After a screenshot of the location tag was shared on the social media platform X, this novel strategy for raising community awareness received a lot of attention. The post quickly got more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,34,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-837025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-it-2-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=837025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837025\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=837025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=837025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=837025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}