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Live map of the London Underground

99 points by joelanman 16y ago

RiderOfGiraffes 16y ago
Where did you hear of Science Hack Day ?! I've never heard of it and would give a lot to have been there. Now really annoyed (mutters to self under breath .. muttter mutter mutter ...)
- ig1 16y ago
  I find the best way to keep track of that kind of thing is following a bunch of well connect geeks on twitter. Frustratingly it clashed with both productcamp and the facebook hackathon. It would be great to have a london events calender both to keep track of these events and also to avoid clashes.
  - joelanman 16y ago
    I didn't know about the hack day, but I found this page through Matthew's twitter: http://twitter.com/dracos http://twitter.com/dracos
thingie 16y ago
Reminds me of this. (Though it is much older, and data, as I remember, come only from the timetable, it's not live.) http://www.swisstrains.ch/ http://www.swisstrains.ch/
m0tive 16y ago
Nice. There's some odd bugs with a couple of the trains... I've just seen one travel from Kings Cross to West Ruislip, off the tracks and in under a minute.
imurray 16y ago
Matthew Somerville has done a bunch of cool stuff as well as this: http://www.dracos.co.uk/ http://www.dracos.co.uk/ Just this weekend I stumbled onto his site again when wanting to know where the nearest postbox to my new flat is. Incidentally there is an official "real time map": http://journeyplanner.tfl.gov.uk/im/RD-T.html http://journeyplanner.tfl.gov.uk/im/RD-T.html It's less cool, but actually tells you at a glance what you really want to know: where disruptions are.
- dracos 16y ago
  Thanks :-) It would definitely be good if the map could at some point highlight disruptions, or closed stations/lines, yes (along with other things it could show, such as trains at depots if we know where the depots are). Source is available at http://github.com/dracos/underground-live-map http://github.com/dracos/underground-live-map :)
lkozma 16y ago
There was this one for Helsinki buses for a while: http://transport.wspgroup.fi/hklkartta/defaultEn.aspx http://transport.wspgroup.fi/hklkartta/defaultEn.aspx
j23tom 16y ago
hey, it's not fully interactive ! Where is drop bomb function ?
furyg3 16y ago
I really wish this would be available for Amsterdam. I feel like GVB (the organization which organized public transit in the city) wouldn't publish an API. Half the time I feel like the drivers don't even know where their trams are headed.
kierank 16y ago
It'll be interesting to verify this as the trains pass me by here at home.
- th0ma5 16y ago
  i would be interested in verification as well, by looking at it, i think it gets updates frequently, but i'm not sure if they are live or not, but it does seem that based on whichever information it is getting, then it is running a dead-reckoning type interpolation of where the train probably is, and there's nothing wrong with that. however, i would be very impressed at the efficiency of the flow if this was all actual readings all the time.
  - kierank 16y ago
    The interpolation was about 2-3 minutes out and in that time it didn't poll the tfl server as far as I could see. However, when I hit refresh the location was pretty accurate.
st0p 16y ago
Awesome!
soyelmango 16y ago
This will be invaluable for any scientist to prove that earth minutes and tube minutes are different.
hngryhppos 16y ago
I bet Google has the data to add this to there transit maps feature. Is there a way to add locations on a map that use an icon other than the pin?

99 points by joelanman 16y ago

Where did you hear of Science Hack Day ?! I've never heard of it and would give a lot to have been there. Now really annoyed (mutters to self under breath .. muttter mutter mutter ...)

ig1 16y ago
I find the best way to keep track of that kind of thing is following a bunch of well connect geeks on twitter. Frustratingly it clashed with both productcamp and the facebook hackathon. It would be great to have a london events calender both to keep track of these events and also to avoid clashes.
- joelanman 16y ago
  I didn't know about the hack day, but I found this page through Matthew's twitter: http://twitter.com/dracos http://twitter.com/dracos

thingie 16y ago

Reminds me of this. (Though it is much older, and data, as I remember, come only from the timetable, it's not live.) http://www.swisstrains.ch/ http://www.swisstrains.ch/

m0tive 16y ago

Nice. There's some odd bugs with a couple of the trains... I've just seen one travel from Kings Cross to West Ruislip, off the tracks and in under a minute.

imurray 16y ago

Matthew Somerville has done a bunch of cool stuff as well as this: http://www.dracos.co.uk/ http://www.dracos.co.uk/ Just this weekend I stumbled onto his site again when wanting to know where the nearest postbox to my new flat is. Incidentally there is an official "real time map": http://journeyplanner.tfl.gov.uk/im/RD-T.html http://journeyplanner.tfl.gov.uk/im/RD-T.html It's less cool, but actually tells you at a glance what you really want to know: where disruptions are.

dracos 16y ago
Thanks :-) It would definitely be good if the map could at some point highlight disruptions, or closed stations/lines, yes (along with other things it could show, such as trains at depots if we know where the depots are). Source is available at http://github.com/dracos/underground-live-map http://github.com/dracos/underground-live-map :)

lkozma 16y ago

There was this one for Helsinki buses for a while: http://transport.wspgroup.fi/hklkartta/defaultEn.aspx http://transport.wspgroup.fi/hklkartta/defaultEn.aspx

j23tom 16y ago

hey, it's not fully interactive ! Where is drop bomb function ?

furyg3 16y ago

I really wish this would be available for Amsterdam. I feel like GVB (the organization which organized public transit in the city) wouldn't publish an API. Half the time I feel like the drivers don't even know where their trams are headed.

kierank 16y ago

It'll be interesting to verify this as the trains pass me by here at home.

th0ma5 16y ago
i would be interested in verification as well, by looking at it, i think it gets updates frequently, but i'm not sure if they are live or not, but it does seem that based on whichever information it is getting, then it is running a dead-reckoning type interpolation of where the train probably is, and there's nothing wrong with that. however, i would be very impressed at the efficiency of the flow if this was all actual readings all the time.
- kierank 16y ago
  The interpolation was about 2-3 minutes out and in that time it didn't poll the tfl server as far as I could see. However, when I hit refresh the location was pretty accurate.

st0p 16y ago

Awesome!

soyelmango 16y ago

This will be invaluable for any scientist to prove that earth minutes and tube minutes are different.

hngryhppos 16y ago

I bet Google has the data to add this to there transit maps feature. Is there a way to add locations on a map that use an icon other than the pin?