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Re: Real-Time Tokyo Subway Map

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Post by numpad0 »

stemlord wrote: post #16

Really cool but I'm not sure what's to be gained by it being 3d? If I were to use this as a daily utility it'd happen on my phone while out and about, so I imagine all the rendering could be a critical loss of performance for such a use case. Also seems like an overly complicated way to organize such a dense amount of information? At least a toggle between 2d/3d would be good

Interfaces used in train operation facilities[1] quite different from this but are similar across systems, and this one is more or less just a visualization.

At personal levels, you either type in (time, origin, goal) into a map or a route finder app and get on trains in sequence as the app says, or do a rudimentary graph search in your head[2] and hope you don't hit 10 minute gaps between trains, which happens, but it's 10 minutes tops anyway.

1: https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/corp-trains-il...

2: This shows hub and spoke model works for trains, but why not for air travel?

Re: Real-Time Tokyo Subway Map

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Post by squarefoot »

Simple and beautiful on many levels. Also, train and cameras are closely synced with a max lag of 3-5 seconds, with the video trailing a bit. If you zoom out it shows the entire earth map along with rain visualization; it could mean it has been built on top of a weather map. Very nice!

Re: Real-Time Tokyo Subway Map

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Post by incompleteCode »

kortilla wrote: post #29
volkl48 wrote: post #26

Possibly of interest to some - NYC actually has an official live map in beta. https://map.mta.info/ I don't like some of the UI decisions with where it's currently at, primarily not showing the trains and their directions very prominently (the trains are there if you zoom in, but they're just unlabeled rectangles moving on the lines), but it's a start. It does do a pretty decent job at showing what services are actua…

Gah, every map move pushes onto the history stack, terrible.

It seems even unrelated to map move. Just loading up the page injected 10 items onto the stack.

Re: Real-Time Tokyo Subway Map

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Post by [deleted] »

stemlord wrote: post #16

Really cool but I'm not sure what's to be gained by it being 3d? If I were to use this as a daily utility it'd happen on my phone while out and about, so I imagine all the rendering could be a critical loss of performance for such a use case. Also seems like an overly complicated way to organize such a dense amount of information? At least a toggle between 2d/3d would be good

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Re: Real-Time Tokyo Subway Map

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Post by poglet »

asiachick wrote: post #30

Very cool, but FYI, this is not a "subway" map. It is a transportation map. Trains, Planes, Monorails. The page's title is "Mini Tokyo 3D" not "Real-Time Tokyo Subway Map"

Does it only include JR lines, it looks to be missing other lines? Edit: I was wrong, I see private lines.

Re: Real-Time Tokyo Subway Map

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Post by pjerem »

Reventlov wrote: post #44

Reminds me of this real time map of trains in France (including subways, in Paris at least) : https://carto.graou.info/48.6/3/7/0/0

Oh nice ! Thank you :)

For subways, it looks like it’s limited to Paris but trains seems to be shown all across the country.

Re: Real-Time Tokyo Subway Map

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Post by feupan »

volkl48 wrote: post #26

Possibly of interest to some - NYC actually has an official live map in beta. https://map.mta.info/ I don't like some of the UI decisions with where it's currently at, primarily not showing the trains and their directions very prominently (the trains are there if you zoom in, but they're just unlabeled rectangles moving on the lines), but it's a start. It does do a pretty decent job at showing what services are actua…

Literally unusable on Safari on an i9. One frame every few seconds, I wonder what they're doing so wrong since OP’s more detailed Tokyo demo is pretty fast.
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