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+- Street Traffic offers separate Lines and Dots toggles while live flow is on:
+  Lines draws each road with flow in green, amber or red, and Dots shows or
+  hides the moving dots. A host can choose which road modes it offers; without
+  OpenStreetMap the layer never draws simulated roads (#1609).