Hungarian Railways' Live Countrywide Map • Hacker News Board

Re: Hungarian Railways' Live Countrywide Map

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Post by jacek » Tue, Jan 02, 2024, 12:17 PM UTC

Berlin and Brandenburg in Germany: https://www.vbb.de/fahrinfo/ (need to enable it in the top right corner). Includes ICE, regional, suburban trains, subway, trams, buses and ferries.

Re: Hungarian Railways' Live Countrywide Map

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Post by ricardobayes » Tue, Jan 02, 2024, 12:51 PM UTC

nicgrev103 wrote: post #21

For the UK, quite a good one, can see trains moving from zoomed out https://www.map.signalbox.io/

For comparison, I find it quite funny the UK version colours ones red which are 10 minutes late. In the Hungarian one, red means 50min+ late.

Re: Hungarian Railways' Live Countrywide Map

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Post by mschuster91 » Tue, Jan 02, 2024, 12:51 PM UTC

popcalc wrote: post #25

Svip wrote: post #23

Seeing as everyone is posting other countries' live railway maps, here is Denmark's: https://www.rejseplanen.dk/bin/help.exe/mn?L=vs_livemap&tpl=...

The "help.exe" in the path is concerning.

Windows IIS. Nothing out of the ordinary there. eBay, for a long time, ran all their endpoints through a service called `eBayISAPI.dll`.

Re: Hungarian Railways' Live Countrywide Map

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Post by dikkechill » Tue, Jan 02, 2024, 12:56 PM UTC

hoseja wrote: post #28

Has anyone tried consolidating all these national trackers into a big European one?

Have a look at https://travic.app

It visualizes GTFS data for many countries, also outside of Europe. Next to trains, it shows buses, metro's, trams, etc.

For interesting technical details (e.g. on interpolation, updates, scaling, etc) you can find the paper at http://ad-publications.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/theses/Mas...

Re: Hungarian Railways' Live Countrywide Map

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Post by niknetniko » Tue, Jan 02, 2024, 1:01 PM UTC

As everyone is posting, a similar one exists for Belgium: https://trainmap.belgiantrain.be/

(It is not 100% live, "The train positions are calculated based on timetables, real time info and prognoses.")

Also fun are international trains, which are shown, but there is no map outside of Belgium.

Re: Hungarian Railways' Live Countrywide Map

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Post by doikor » Tue, Jan 02, 2024, 1:12 PM UTC

Here is the Finnish one

https://www.vr.fi/en/live-train-tracker-map

I couldn’t find any info if it is based gps data or time tables but I have checked and seen my train that was late being stopped where it in reality was (waiting for another train that was late to pass on a 1 track line)

Re: Hungarian Railways' Live Countrywide Map

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Post by poisonborz » Tue, Jan 02, 2024, 1:25 PM UTC

I think the big feature here is that the biggest visual factor is the punctuality. Funny seeing this posted here as Hun railways are famous for delays/antiquated tech/bad management, even though it seems rather fine currently.

When viewing the German version, almost all regional trains have delays, a lot 20-30 minutes even. Having the huge swarm of trains all as red dots overlaid on the country map would be an easy, damning visual representation of the situation.