A 3D live map of the London Underground

This is a nice illustration of WebGL but the Hacker News title ("A 3D live map of the London Underground") is overblown.

Live? if you can choose the speed of the trains then it is not really representing a live scenario.

3D? There's some jiggling of the tunnels but Camden Town station appears to have 2 tunnels and doesn't feature any of its 3D cross-platform glory illustrated here: https://simanaitissays.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/camdentow...

http://tracker.geops.ch/ got submitted to HN a quite a few times but never got traction.

It's only 2d and missing parts of the Transport for London infrastructure, but it's truly global otherwise.

http://tracker.geops.ch/?z=2&s=1&x=-3057.5011&y=5968203.1664...

It's not live, this is (almost) live: http://traintimes.org.uk/map/tube/

This is just a visual experiment, it has no intention to be used as a service. It is live because it is pulling live data from the TfL prediction summary API, which returns approximate arrival times for the next 30 minutes. The default simulation speed is 5 and it can be adjusted to 1 for an experience as 'live' as http://traintimes.org.uk/map/tube/

As for the Circle line, it is just commented out in the code because it wasn't really adding anything. The prediction summary doesn't return isolated data for the Circle (at least it didn't when I made this experiment) so I had to improvise by merging District, H&C and Metropolitan. It was an approximation of the approximation. It wasn't looking great, so I just left it out.

amazing.