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Show HN: Ubähnchen – Animated subway map of Berlin
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Re: Show HN: Ubähnchen – Animated subway map of Berlin
#62The problem with Berlin is than there are many operators for public transport by train: * U-Bahn, for the subways (underground & aerial) * S-Bahn, for sub-urban lines (mostly aerial) * Traway in est-Berlin A map, live or not need at least to combine the U-Bahn and the S-Bahn, (and if possible the tramway too), because you generally need to use both networks (with the same ticket) to travel. Staying in only one of the…
How about this one? It also includes the rest of Germany:
Re: Show HN: Ubähnchen – Animated subway map of Berlin
#63Looks great! If author wants some inspiration then this tokyo map is awesome: https://github.com/nagix/mini-tokyo-3d
Thanks for sharing this! It will definitely be helpful, as I am considering updating my map to use WebGL.
Re: Show HN: Ubähnchen – Animated subway map of Berlin
#64The problem with Berlin is than there are many operators for public transport by train: * U-Bahn, for the subways (underground & aerial) * S-Bahn, for sub-urban lines (mostly aerial) * Traway in est-Berlin A map, live or not need at least to combine the U-Bahn and the S-Bahn, (and if possible the tramway too), because you generally need to use both networks (with the same ticket) to travel. Staying in only one of the…
When you say "operator": isn't it all BVG?
Re: Show HN: Ubähnchen – Animated subway map of Berlin
#65The problem with Berlin is than there are many operators for public transport by train: * U-Bahn, for the subways (underground & aerial) * S-Bahn, for sub-urban lines (mostly aerial) * Traway in est-Berlin A map, live or not need at least to combine the U-Bahn and the S-Bahn, (and if possible the tramway too), because you generally need to use both networks (with the same ticket) to travel. Staying in only one of the…
How about this one? It also includes the rest of Germany: https://travic.app/?z=13&x=1493233.2&y=6894127.0
Thank you for posting this: This also has the Danish real time data presented in a much cleaner way than the various web services of our local operators.
Re: Show HN: Ubähnchen – Animated subway map of Berlin
#66The problem with Berlin is than there are many operators for public transport by train: * U-Bahn, for the subways (underground & aerial) * S-Bahn, for sub-urban lines (mostly aerial) * Traway in est-Berlin A map, live or not need at least to combine the U-Bahn and the S-Bahn, (and if possible the tramway too), because you generally need to use both networks (with the same ticket) to travel. Staying in only one of the…
When you say "operator": isn't it all BVG?
The S-Bahn is run exclusively by the DB subsidiary S-Bahn Berlin
Re: Show HN: Ubähnchen – Animated subway map of Berlin
#67The problem with Berlin is than there are many operators for public transport by train: * U-Bahn, for the subways (underground & aerial) * S-Bahn, for sub-urban lines (mostly aerial) * Traway in est-Berlin A map, live or not need at least to combine the U-Bahn and the S-Bahn, (and if possible the tramway too), because you generally need to use both networks (with the same ticket) to travel. Staying in only one of the…
How about this one? It also includes the rest of Germany: https://travic.app/?z=13&x=1493233.2&y=6894127.0
Even though it is a great project/product, note that it does not have realtime data in Berlin/Brandenburg. It interpolates the position based on schedule data [1].
[1] I assume based on https://daten.berlin.de/datensaetze/vbb-fahrplandaten-gtfs
Re: Show HN: Ubähnchen – Animated subway map of Berlin
#68Earlier quoted context omitted.
How about this one? It also includes the rest of Germany: https://travic.app/?z=13&x=1493233.2&y=6894127.0
Even though it is a great project/product, note that it does not have realtime data in Berlin/Brandenburg. It interpolates the position based on schedule data [1]. [1] I assume based on https://daten.berlin.de/datensaetze/vbb-fahrplandaten-gtfs
Aw, too bad. Here I was, already getting excited that they had real-time data.
Re: Show HN: Ubähnchen – Animated subway map of Berlin
#69The problem with Berlin is than there are many operators for public transport by train: * U-Bahn, for the subways (underground & aerial) * S-Bahn, for sub-urban lines (mostly aerial) * Traway in est-Berlin A map, live or not need at least to combine the U-Bahn and the S-Bahn, (and if possible the tramway too), because you generally need to use both networks (with the same ticket) to travel. Staying in only one of the…
It's such a shame that the official Tram network map [1] almost fits the U-Bahn/S-Bahn map [2], but not exactly.
My assumption is that, when BVG designed these, they had separate maps in mind already early in the process, because including all station names on a tiny printed map is not feasible. With those transparent maps at the trams' windows though, or especially with a digital zoomable map, this would be completely feasible.
According to a BVG email from a few years ago, there isn't even a machine-readable version of this map, which is why I hand-digitised it. [3] So sad because the creativeness of the internet combined with a "remixabe" [4] (or at least forkable) version would likely kick off cool projects!
If anyone wants to attempt merging them, please open an Issue in [5] to let me know!
PS: Do you know about the (experimental) BVG bus map? [6]
[1] https://www.bvg.de/dam/jcr:d45105f2-6752-4ec5-b882-893657205... [2] https://www.bvg.de/dam/jcr:60a89e3b-f88d-4d48-b8a6-98ab340ad... [3] https://github.com/derhuerst/bvg-topological-map/issues/7#is... [4] https://github.com/derhuerst/remix-bvg-map-frontend [5] https://github.com/derhuerst/bvg-topological-map [6] https://www.bvg.de/dam/jcr:ee4647c3-ce1e-4b0a-9546-b1848b85e...
Re: Show HN: Ubähnchen – Animated subway map of Berlin
#70Earlier quoted context omitted.
Even though it is a great project/product, note that it does not have realtime data in Berlin/Brandenburg. It interpolates the position based on schedule data [1]. [1] I assume based on https://daten.berlin.de/datensaetze/vbb-fahrplandaten-gtfs
Aw, too bad. Here I was, already getting excited that they had real-time data.
AFAIK they do in some places where realtime data is available under and open license and in an acceptable format, e.g. in Switzerland.
shameless plug: I build a tool that polls VBB's (or any other compatible) API and produces a GTFS-Realtime feed. [1]