The BlackBerry Traffic application that has been chilling out in a closed beta format for the last couple of months is now done testing and available to the public at large for free.

For those unfamiliar, it’s is a turn-by-turn directions app made by RIM that instead of showing a map, would display a simple straight line with estimates about how busy each section of the trip would be. This ties in with a new API that RIM launched with OS 6 that would mine anonymous location data and feed it to developers.

Even though you can opt out of that service, I still find it’s on shaky privacy ground for those who are concerned about that sort of thing. Still, BlackBerry Traffic is a neat take on the traditional navigation app, and by crowdsourcing GPS data, BlackBerry developers can throw an estimated time of arrival for any location within their app. Get Forum