4 points
If I remember correctly Magic Earth claims to get its traffic information from public sources, without using user’s locations like google. So no, location data is not strictly necessary for that.
2 points
It seems you are right: https://www.magicearth.com/faq/#traffic-and-events-help
Where do you get the traffic and road closure info from?
We get it from a third-party provider; it is not created by us.
It’s limited to mostly first world countries: https://www.magicearth.com/feature-availablity/#hd_traffic
But somehow, someone tracking it’s users, I can’t imagine other way to get data like this. Maybe some carsharing service, company fleet management or something like that.
