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Nice project idea: collect gps data from cell-phone users that are on a train, and based on this data (lots of users moving at the same speed across known tracks), get an overview of where trains are located.
http://www.apps-bahn.de/bin/livemap/query-livemap.exe/dn?L=v...
Disclaimer: this is NOT realtime GNSS data. New project coming in that direction soon.
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Wow! I didn’t know about those ids, thank you. However it would be some work to match the stations. What call the db_id is called IBNR as Internationaler Bahnhofs Nummer
Few weeks ago failed to find public IBNR/RL100 mappings. So we ended up typing 200 main stations per hand (basis was Wikipedia). DB has the data in systems (for instance, ETN), it's just, well, not open...
It's a good start, but a lot of countries are missing from the list.
(I work at Capitaine Train who published this data) It is true. This database has not the pretension to have all the stations in Europe. It has all the stations where we can sell tickets to. As we connect to more carriers, the database will expand. But it is a long process.
https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seznam_%C5%BEelezni%C4%8Dn%C3%...
It's a good start, but a lot of countries are missing from the list.
(I work at Capitaine Train who published this data) It is true. This database has not the pretension to have all the stations in Europe. It has all the stations where we can sell tickets to. As we connect to more carriers, the database will expand. But it is a long process.
This list seems to have a lot more stations than the website or Android app allows.
e.g. I can't book a ticket to/from London Charing Cross, or Cambridge, yet those are in the CSV file.
Nice project idea: collect gps data from cell-phone users that are on a train, and based on this data (lots of users moving at the same speed across known tracks), get an overview of where trains are located.
Here's a list of uses of British open train data: http://nrodwiki.rockshore.net/index.php/Projects (a few are broken).
For example, a live diagram of the signals on the line from London Victoria to East Croydon http://www.opentraintimes.com/maps/signalling/vtb1
In this context absolutely worth mentioning is the Public Transport Enabler ( https://github.com/schildbach/public-transport-enabler ). This is what we used to create this prototype: https://medium.com/@highsource/reliable-train-connections-ap... Disclaimer: I'm working for the Deutsche Bahn (German Railways) and try do some persuasion work towards Open Data here internally.
For example, I can see a station is missing, but is there any way to find its UIC code (or other identifiers) so I can add an entry? It's not clear what `is_suggestable` actually means, so I wouldn't know what to input.
Also, while there are info:* columns for miscellaneous info, there doesn't seem to be multiple name:* columns for the localised station name (a lot of this data may already be in OpenStreetMap)?
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Few weeks ago failed to find public IBNR/RL100 mappings. So we ended up typing 200 main stations per hand (basis was Wikipedia). DB has the data in systems (for instance, ETN), it's just, well, not open...
Welcome to my world ;)
Instead, I had to do hack upon hack to match SNCF's station names (like say "Valence (France - toutes gares)") to OSM nodes, or failing that to city names, and in the end fix the remaining ones manually.