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ViziCities Update #2: London Underground in 3D with live trains, and Leap Motion
- shanehudson 13y agoIs this the first ever map of real time underground? Have been looking for an android app that does it for ages, so looking forward to this releasing!
- robhawkes 13y agoNot first… the 2D map I link to in the post did real-time before us. This is certainly the first 3D (with depths) real-time tube map that I've seen!
- shanehudson 13y agoAh okay, yeah I have never even seen a diagram of the depths before!
- robhawkes 13y agoI don't think many people have! ;)
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- dojodonk 13y agoCan't wait to see this! When will it launch? Only for London though?
- robhawkes 13y agoGlad you're excited about it. We don't have a date yet but we're working hard to get it out as soon as we feel it's ready. And London to start with, though we already have plans for other cities (so long as the data exists). Any suggestions for cities?
- dojodonk 13y agoSan Fran would be great although any city would be interesting
- robhawkes 13y agoWe have enough data for SF, it's actually one of the cities we'd like to implement in the first batch.
- ldng 13y agoYou should consider Paris. You'll have real height available for the buildings ;-)
- petewsmart 13y agoIt sure would! Watch this space ;)
- vijayr 13y agoAnd NYC please :)
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- rurounijones 13y agoawesome, I was getting a bit worried about the lack of updates on their blog. Thrilled that they are actually talking to various agencies. I am a bit worried about the attention given to "shiny" (Leap Motion, Twitter, vehicles etc.) features rather than actually useful statistical stuff but I am hoping they are just working on this while they are in discussions with said agencies.
- petewsmart 13y agoWe've been meaning to post for ages! Finding time in amongst all the excitement has been our challenge. Thanks so much for your support - lots more soon!
- robhawkes 13y agoNoticed you updated the comment… Re: "Shiny". We're working on a huge number of different features and we didn't want to overload the latest update with things we'd already covered in the first update – things like statistical data visualisation, etc. We're still working on those areas though and they are still a priority, they just don't need as much work as the other features right now.
- rurounijones 13y agoYea, sorry about that, I thought I edited it quickly enough that no one will have read it yet. My ninja skillz need training.
- robhawkes 13y agoWe're pretty quick ;)
- a_n_o_nymous 13y agoIt's just a overhyped shiny toy...
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- emtunc 13y agoAwesome - I like the 'depth' feature of the tube network. I assume this data is also provided by TFL? If so, it is quite good of them to provide so much data to the public domain.
- petewsmart 13y agoThe data is all publicly available TFL data. Although a lot of work has gone into making it all useable. We're hoping to give back and help improve some of the ways TFL structure their data too
- mcdowall 13y agoI noticed that in your post as well just now, "What you can see here is the result of many hours of work from Pete and I, ranging from programming time, to nearly giving up trying to understand the algorithms involved, to hours spent manually wrestling with Excel spreadsheets containing the data we needed. Let's just say that the world would be a better place if data was offered in a variety of similar, usable formats." I'm leading the project on exactly that, our new Beta site is built upon the new API my team have been building (common data model, RESTful, lower latency etc). Ping me over a mail and we can get you involved in the beta API.
- cyanbane 13y agoVery cool. What % of the platform (if any) would you say is tailored to London? (ie how easy is it to implement other cities - assuming the mapping/traffic data is present)
- robhawkes 13y agoThanks! Right now we have some unique aspects per-city due to the way the data is provided and structured and the fact that we're still prototyping features. Eventually, we plan to move to an abstracted approach using consistent data formats that means we can spin up a new city without any modifications to the platform.
- camus 13y agogreat project , cant wait to test it.
- robhawkes 13y agoThanks! We're looking forward to getting it out there for you to use.
- pron 13y agoWe'd like to help. Could you drop us a line: info at paralleluniverse dot co