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Real-Time Tokyo Subway Map

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Re: Real-Time Tokyo Subway Map

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Post by ChrisMarshallNY »

It’s very cool!

I used to use the Tokyo train system all the time. It’s a true marvel.

I noticed that the Musashino line was running 15 minutes late, this morning.

On Long Island, that would be annoying, but in Tokyo, that’s a train engineer, looking at a firing.

The one thing that always has annoyed me about the Tokyo rail system, is that the various lines are all run by different companies, and it can be hard to find “integrated” maps and schedules. I think that’s improving.

It looks like this map is integrated. Having information about what company runs each line, in the callouts, would be useful.

Re: Real-Time Tokyo Subway Map

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Post by Ftuuky »

numpad0 wrote: post #41
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 does show airplanes as well.

Re: Real-Time Tokyo Subway Map

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Post by keraf »

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

Looks like there's a 2d version[0] but the map doesn't load (expired API key?) and it doesn't show as many lines. Can maybe be revived or adapted for your city by checking out the source [1].

[0] https://nagix.github.io/mini-tokyo/ [1] https://github.com/nagix/mini-tokyo

Re: Real-Time Tokyo Subway Map

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Post by bellyfullofbac »

supernova87a wrote: post #10

I can't quite tell whether it even shows where lines go under/over one another and knows that exactly, but regardless, it's a wonderful visualization! I wonder at what level the train positions are known exactly versus approximated? Is there a simple flat / non-3D version of it?

Having the subways be the appropriate depth under the surface would be amazing, it's probably surprising how deep some subway stations go under ground...

Re: Real-Time Tokyo Subway Map

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Post by scary-size »

That's cool, especially like that the parallel lanes don't overlap. I did something similar, but simpler, a few years ago for Hamburg's public transit "hvv" [1]. Described my approach in a blog post [2]. Hasn't been updated in three year, so probably some lines are broken.

[1]: https://hvv.live

[2]: https://franz.hamburg/writing/the-moving-city.html

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