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Re: Show HN: Ubähnchen – Animated subway map of Berlin

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Post by pvg »

rob74 wrote: post #25

Nice! Would be more realistic (and more Mini Metro-like) if the trains actually stopped at the stations though. Also, the trains don't have to disappear and reappear at the terminal stations, they could just stay there until they are scheduled to go back - after all, that's what they do in reality as well... Any chance that the source could be made available ;) ?

It's linked in the (somewhat easy to miss) about page

https://xn--ubhnchen-1za.vercel.app/en/about

Re: Show HN: Ubähnchen – Animated subway map of Berlin

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Post by purecode »

There is a real Berlin live map of subway, bus and railway at: https://www.vbb.de/fahrinfo/ by the operator.

Seems no english version available, you have to

  - click upper right corner "Livekarte"
  - click on the menu again "Livekarte"
  - select means of transport: radio buttons for subway, railway etc
  - zoom in to see subway

Re: Show HN: Ubähnchen – Animated subway map of Berlin

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Post by culturestate »

NeoTar wrote: post #16

I really like it! Well done! - As others have mentioned, it seems dodgy on Firefox. The button to switch between U-Bahn and S+U mode doesn't seem to work at all on Safari (?) - Completely unreasonable request, but it would be cool if it were to show the current engineering works - i.e. the U1 not running, and the temporary U12 taking over the western U2 and U1 If anyone else is a urban railways geek, then may I intro…

Another great one is https://www.worldmetro.io/map, which came out of a very cool Kickstarter project[1] that mashed up nearly every urban railway in the world into a huge, interconnected network. I bought one of the large 60” x 45” maps and I still sometimes sit and stare at it, trying to find the various stops where I’ve lived and worked over the years.

1. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1960956629/the-world-me...

Re: Show HN: Ubähnchen – Animated subway map of Berlin

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Post by ant6n »

rob74 wrote: post #25

Nice! Would be more realistic (and more Mini Metro-like) if the trains actually stopped at the stations though. Also, the trains don't have to disappear and reappear at the terminal stations, they could just stay there until they are scheduled to go back - after all, that's what they do in reality as well... Any chance that the source could be made available ;) ?

The solution with fade out / fade in is pretty clever. Short layovers will cross-fade automatically, but you don’t need complicated internal information about which train continues from one run to the next.

Stopping would be neat, but may also be visually messy.

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