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- Would be perfect post end of January for next FOSDEM.by palavrov
- For Tokyo, https://minitokyo3d.com/ is just based on a static GTFS file. Or is it realtime? Nobody knows the difference.
(I'm joking. Local trains in Tokyo area are late quite often. Doesn't matter much when there's one every <5 minutes though.)
by krautsauer - Great companion to https://irail.be, a minimalist counterpart to this site, also based on open data.by jpoesen
- Even more impressive: https://api.transitous.org/ (but not everything is live)by ognarb
- Similar map for the Netherlands: http://ovzoeker.nl/by OvervCW
- The same idea, this time for Sofia, Bulgaria.by Shorel
- When I was traveling in Uzbekistan I found a map with live locations of busses operating in Tashkent quite useful on Yandex Map. Today I learned that similar services exist for Switzerland. Not sure though how useful this is for daily life if you have information systems at each stop and public transport that is alsmost always on time.by massenpunkt
- Awesome! Looking at the metro stop near me here in Brussels, the trains seemed stuck for a while at the station. Not impossible this was just real :) Great way to admire the density and connectivity of our public transport!!by wouterjanl
- I always complained about the lack of displays at the tram stops, now it's getting better.by zoobab
- This thread is full of people linking similar projects for different locations. The next step must be to combine it all to a global live map. Useful for... something, I'm sure.by ostacke
- We should also have a hierarchy:
Platinum - Real Live Location
Gold - Live as Estimated Where It Should Be From Last Observation
Silver - Live as Estimated According to Published Schedule
You Kidding Me? - Animated JavaScript...
by Betelbuddy - The nest step would be to map every human. Shouldn't be too hard, there are only 8B of us.by dandanua
- by twelvechairs
- We really need some open source project to manage all the shims across the world. Like in Seattle the WSDOT API has live ferry locations but they never made a GTFS feed for, so i made my own shim for it. I feel like there needs to be some way to make the data access easier for developers.by mips_avatar
- I work on the open-source application Catenary Maps:
It has a live map of public transport around the world, mostly showing the actual vehicle positions (although we interpolate from the estimated arrivals for some European operators). You can also click on vehicles (trains, buses, ferries, etc) to see their past and predicted future arrivals, click on a station to see its departure board, or click on a line to see its variants.
by ethanc8 - For Deutsche Bahn it will be just a photo....by Betelbuddy
- This also doesn’t seem to move, despite the numerous AI CSS slop badgesby rrr_oh_man
- And yet pretty accurate :)by wolvoleo
- I do see some isolated improvements whenever I travel to Germany (mostly to Frankfurt, but what is pain other than Frankfurt am Main), but yeah I sympathize here, and do hope the pushes toward better systems continueby CorvusCrypto
- There is travic.app, which uses realtime data, if available.by 1718627440
- A lot of the transit authorities have live maps: https://www.rvf.de/mapby cgsmith
- At least we can do betting on train delays.
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by pjmlp - I remember how the "live map" for public transport in Berlin was actually a map with where the transport should be, not where it actually was. At least that was the case a couple of years ago with VBB =)
- Is it something new? I think Yandex Maps shows busses in real time since long ago (at least in large cities like Moscow). The busses have GPS and send the data in real time. I wanted to post a link but at night there are not many busses and the first ones will appear 1-2 hours later: https://yandex.ru/maps/213/moscow/transport/buses/?l=masstra...by codedokode
- Similar real time traffic map for Switzerland <https://maps.trafimage.ch/ch.sbb.netzkarte?baselayers=ch.sbb...>by gworf
- Even five minutes late gets you a red dot. Very Swiss.by ceejayoz
- For reference all of these generally use the gtfs standardby twelvechairs
- The amazing thing about this is if you zoom into ski resorts, it looks to have the live positioning of cablecars.by Rnewbs
- This is a simulated map based on published transit schedules. As I’m typing this I sit on a bus that’s nowhere to be seen on the map.by MHordecki
- I've mentioned this before on another thread about the swiss map but for the uninitiated:
It's certainly a cool map and useful to get a general idea how many trains are around at any given time, but it's important to note that this is not real data. They use the train schedule combined with the projected delay to estimate track location. I'm not sure if it's because SBB has an interest in keeping reported delays low or if they think exposing real data is a security risk, but I noticed the data being fake on several occasions, for example:
- My train wasn't able to continue its journey and was stuck between two stations for a few minutes while the map showed it continue to the next few stations up until the point where it started moving again, when their App also showed it running with a delay of 8min.
- On several occasions: watching the map show a train roll into the station and driving off, while seeing from my window that the train is only just arriving when the map shows it as between stations already.