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ViziCities Update #2: London Underground in 3D with live trains, and Leap Motion

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Re: ViziCities Update #2: London Underground in 3D with live trains, and Leap Motion

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Glad you're excited about it. We don't have a date yet but we're working hard to get it out as soon as we feel it's ready. And London to start with, though we already have plans for other cities (so long as the data exists). Any suggestions for cities?

San Fran would be great although any city would be interesting

We have enough data for SF, it's actually one of the cities we'd like to implement in the first batch.

Re: ViziCities Update #2: London Underground in 3D with live trains, and Leap Motion

#12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Glad you're excited about it. We don't have a date yet but we're working hard to get it out as soon as we feel it's ready. And London to start with, though we already have plans for other cities (so long as the data exists). Any suggestions for cities?

San Fran would be great although any city would be interesting

It sure would! Watch this space ;)

Re: ViziCities Update #2: London Underground in 3D with live trains, and Leap Motion

#13
awesome, I was getting a bit worried about the lack of updates on their blog. Thrilled that they are actually talking to various agencies.

I am a bit worried about the attention given to "shiny" (Leap Motion, Twitter, vehicles etc.) features rather than actually useful statistical stuff but I am hoping they are just working on this while they are in discussions with said agencies.

Re: ViziCities Update #2: London Underground in 3D with live trains, and Leap Motion

#14

awesome, I was getting a bit worried about the lack of updates on their blog. Thrilled that they are actually talking to various agencies. I am a bit worried about the attention given to "shiny" (Leap Motion, Twitter, vehicles etc.) features rather than actually useful statistical stuff but I am hoping they are just working on this while they are in discussions with said agencies.

We've been meaning to post for ages! Finding time in amongst all the excitement has been our challenge. Thanks so much for your support - lots more soon!

Re: ViziCities Update #2: London Underground in 3D with live trains, and Leap Motion

#15

awesome, I was getting a bit worried about the lack of updates on their blog. Thrilled that they are actually talking to various agencies. I am a bit worried about the attention given to "shiny" (Leap Motion, Twitter, vehicles etc.) features rather than actually useful statistical stuff but I am hoping they are just working on this while they are in discussions with said agencies.

Noticed you updated the comment…

Re: "Shiny". We're working on a huge number of different features and we didn't want to overload the latest update with things we'd already covered in the first update – things like statistical data visualisation, etc. We're still working on those areas though and they are still a priority, they just don't need as much work as the other features right now.

Re: ViziCities Update #2: London Underground in 3D with live trains, and Leap Motion

#17
post #16

Awesome - I like the 'depth' feature of the tube network. I assume this data is also provided by TFL? If so, it is quite good of them to provide so much data to the public domain.

The data is all publicly available TFL data. Although a lot of work has gone into making it all useable. We're hoping to give back and help improve some of the ways TFL structure their data too

Re: ViziCities Update #2: London Underground in 3D with live trains, and Leap Motion

#19

awesome, I was getting a bit worried about the lack of updates on their blog. Thrilled that they are actually talking to various agencies. I am a bit worried about the attention given to "shiny" (Leap Motion, Twitter, vehicles etc.) features rather than actually useful statistical stuff but I am hoping they are just working on this while they are in discussions with said agencies.

Noticed you updated the comment… Re: "Shiny". We're working on a huge number of different features and we didn't want to overload the latest update with things we'd already covered in the first update – things like statistical data visualisation, etc. We're still working on those areas though and they are still a priority, they just don't need as much work as the other features right now.

Yea, sorry about that, I thought I edited it quickly enough that no one will have read it yet.

My ninja skillz need training.

Re: ViziCities Update #2: London Underground in 3D with live trains, and Leap Motion

#20

Very cool. What % of the platform (if any) would you say is tailored to London? (ie how easy is it to implement other cities - assuming the mapping/traffic data is present)

Thanks! Right now we have some unique aspects per-city due to the way the data is provided and structured and the fact that we're still prototyping features.

Eventually, we plan to move to an abstracted approach using consistent data formats that means we can spin up a new city without any modifications to the platform.

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