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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 spacedcowboy »

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

Is the interesting part the upvotes, meaning there's more people interested in UK train networks than French ones ? And it's a comment on demographics ?

Or is the interesting part that the UK one is real-time, and the French one isn't (or at least, zooming in, I don't see them moving).

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

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Post by crimsoneer »

iso1631 wrote: post #59
ErroneousBosh wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This map is for the UK, not the US. We don't have ICE here.

It's a reference to the murder of Henry Nowak, a sad example of knife crime which exists in the uk, and of individual police officers who failed to render basic first aid. The family not only lost their son, but then had to see his name used to further the global hatred of the farage types

I suspect it's linked to this which is the latest example being used.

https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/uk-man-was-assaulted-by-atta...

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

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Post by frnz »

Liquid_Fire wrote: post #45
frnz wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

so an empty train does not show up?

Not sure how you came to that conclusion. An empty train would still exist in the live train data. It does not depend on mobile phones, but on rail signals and other such tracking built into the rail infrastructure.

of course, sry, I didn't read the descriptions. Thanks for clarification!

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

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Post by Paul_S »

I can tell it's not accurate because it has half the trains marked as on time.

Reality is far more depressing. You'd also need to add ghostly white for cancelled and bus icons for replacement buses. Why do I live here god. Why can't we have a functional train network like literally any other civilised country.

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

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Post by jjgreen »

nephihaha wrote: post #43
ErroneousBosh wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This map is for the UK, not the US. We don't have ICE here.

Most of the UK. Northern Ireland's network is not included.

Quite right, "UK" is an abbreviation for "The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland"
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