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Real-time map of Great Britain's rail network

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Re: Real-time map of Great Britain's rail network

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Post by Shywim »

maelito wrote: post #6

Checkout the French equivalent : https://carto.tchoo.net . Looks more complete. Past similar HN submission got no attention, whereas the UK's top page. Interesting ! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45249351

Note that carto.tchoo does not provide real position in real-time: it only has access to departures, stops, delays and suppressions and interpolate position based on this.

This means that if your train is running at half-speed or stopped but does not result in an official delay, the position will not match reality.

Re: Real-time map of Great Britain's rail network

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Post by frnz »

Liquid_Fire wrote: post #29
AJRF wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> This is matching your phone's location But what is getting that ?

You are giving it to them. That's why the demo asks for your location permission, and that's why the API expects location info. "You" here means another app that integrates their API (or you as an individual using the demo on their website). How the other app gets it is up to the other app - ideally it also just queries it directly and requires location permission.

so an empty train does not show up?

Re: Real-time map of Great Britain's rail network

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Post by ErroneousBosh »

mschuster91 wrote: post #28
philipwhiuk wrote: post #4

Topping out at 10 minutes delay for the most severe marker colour is an interesting choice.

Certainly would not work out in Germany LOL

It's amazing how easily you can tell when you cross the border from OBB to DB ;-)
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