Live Map of the London Underground
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Live Map of the London Underground
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Re: Live Map of the London Underground
#2Very neat. I like it.
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#3Very cool. Especially as it a real map not a 'network diagram' who is so confusing.
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#4> Data -> TfL live tube data
> *You will regret using this data. You will regret using this API.*
> It serves data from individual arrivals boards, which all spell stations differently
> It has a load-balancer that regularly returns data that is older than the data returned in the previous request.
Won't someone think of the Ai overlords who will take care of all this for us in the future. A bit of consistency goes a long way.
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#5Looks great but I'm watching this while sitting on a tube right now. What I assumed was my train was lagging by quite a bit and then disappeared!
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#6It's cool to see how fast the trains go on different lines. But... where's the Elizabeth line? You get the tooltip when you hover over it, but the polyline is missing.
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#7One of the best game I ever played is the text based souvenir game shopping game on Windows 3. I can't recall the name of the game now since it's more than 30 years ago, but it's about shopping souvenirs using London Underground Tube. You have a semi realistic time constraints like train schedules, your flight schedules and of course list of souvenirs items to shop. This is totally offline since there is no Internet available at the time but it's very engaging nonetheless.
My proposal for the modern version of the game is to use real-time train schedules (with delays, ticket discounts, etc) that are available publicly on the Internet for many metropolitan cities in the world for examples Tokyo, London and Berlin.
Imagine you can have a real-world realistic in-app in-game items purchases feature that you personally can buy in the game and delivered to you or anyone you fancy of giving souvenirs except that you only virtually went there.
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#8Maybe a slight bug: the overlay doesnt appear to be locked to the map - when I scroll around, the overlay moves. Currently the northern lines' southern terminal is hovering over Kingston rather than Morden!
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#9Very cool. Especially as it a real map not a 'network diagram' who is so confusing.
The map API used is somehow very good. I just discovered https://www.maptiler.com/company/
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#10> It serves data from individual arrivals boards, which all spell stations differently
It doesn't, at least not for most lines. TfL's data is notoriously inconsistent, with multiple backends used for different purposes. For most lines, the dot matrix indicators are fed by the signalling system and timetables (more modern signaling systems are timetable-aware). Meanwhile, the online API relies on estimates from TfL's TrackerNet.