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Live map of public transport in Belgium

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Re: Live map of public transport in Belgium

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post #37

This thread is full of people linking similar projects for different locations. The next step must be to combine it all to a global live map. Useful for... something, I'm sure.

The nest step would be to map every human. Shouldn't be too hard, there are only 8B of us.

Guess Flock is trying that for the US as a POC ;)

Re: Live map of public transport in Belgium

#74
When I was traveling in Uzbekistan I found a map with live locations of busses operating in Tashkent quite useful on Yandex Map. Today I learned that similar services exist for Switzerland. Not sure though how useful this is for daily life if you have information systems at each stop and public transport that is alsmost always on time.

Re: Live map of public transport in Belgium

#75
I work on the open-source application Catenary Maps:

https://maps.catenarymaps.org

It has a live map of public transport around the world, mostly showing the actual vehicle positions (although we interpolate from the estimated arrivals for some European operators). You can also click on vehicles (trains, buses, ferries, etc) to see their past and predicted future arrivals, click on a station to see its departure board, or click on a line to see its variants.

Re: Live map of public transport in Belgium

#76

Awesome! Looking at the metro stop near me here in Brussels, the trains seemed stuck for a while at the station. Not impossible this was just real :) Great way to admire the density and connectivity of our public transport!!

I always complained about the lack of displays at the tram stops, now it's getting better.

Re: Live map of public transport in Belgium

#78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is a simulated map based on published transit schedules. As I’m typing this I sit on a bus that’s nowhere to be seen on the map.

Transit telemetry is inherently spotty on these public-facing applications. If it's like other systems, it will resort to transit schedule estimations when data is missing and then try to sync as live data becomes available.

And unfortunately, like most apps, it never bothers telling the user when the data is accurate, and when it's a guess.

Re: Live map of public transport in Belgium

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post #37

This thread is full of people linking similar projects for different locations. The next step must be to combine it all to a global live map. Useful for... something, I'm sure.

We really need some open source project to manage all the shims across the world. Like in Seattle the WSDOT API has live ferry locations but they never made a GTFS feed for, so i made my own shim for it. I feel like there needs to be some way to make the data access easier for developers.

Re: Live map of public transport in Belgium

#80
Is it something new? I think Yandex Maps shows busses in real time since long ago (at least in large cities like Moscow). The busses have GPS and send the data in real time. I wanted to post a link but at night there are not many busses and the first ones will appear 1-2 hours later: https://yandex.ru/maps/213/moscow/transport/buses/?l=masstra...
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