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Garmin has for a long time had live traffic data supplied by municipalities before smartphones became popular. But I’m not sure what you meant by “in-house” (surely not literal!).
The data obviously has to come from somewhere, and it’s usually a third-party in the case of small apps like this.
For Magic Earth to be truly private in this regard, the assumption is that they would need to stop passing information off to third-parties, which would also mean they’d need to collect and parse the traffic data themselves (i.e. “in-house”).
I don’t think that would be feasible, nor would be very accurate with a small user base.
Even if municipalities could provide live traffic data, I can’t see it being accurate beyond city centers and highways, since they can’t monitor every road out there.
That said, I don’t know who the big players are in this space (for traffic data), since I rarely drive and no longer need this feature. LOL