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Re: Live Map of the London Underground

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Post by ascorbic »

usr1106 wrote: post #104
ww520 wrote: post #97

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It's 999.

Is it? In EU 112 is legally mandated. Did they roll back after Brexit? Either way the numbers are mostly legacy. On mobiles emergency calls are a special protocol, no number is really transmitted to the network. If the phone application recognizes a certain number it will initiate an emergency call. And quite often several numbers do it. 000, 112, 911, 999. (Admittedly it's many years I last tested it.)

It's always been 999 in the UK. 112 works on phones too, but that wasn't because of the EU: it's part of the GSM standard.

Re: Live Map of the London Underground

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Post by usr1106 »

ascorbic wrote: post #111
usr1106 wrote: post #104

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is it? In EU 112 is legally mandated. Did they roll back after Brexit? Either way the numbers are mostly legacy. On mobiles emergency calls are a special protocol, no number is really transmitted to the network. If the phone application recognizes a certain number it will initiate an emergency call. And quite often several numbers do it. 000, 112, 911, 999. (Admittedly it's many years I last tested it.)

It's always been 999 in the UK. 112 works on phones too, but that wasn't because of the EU: it's part of the GSM standard.

Both are official https://www.gov.uk/guidance/999-and-112-the-uks-national-eme...

112 was made official by EU in 1991 when GSM did not exit yet: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/112_(emergency_telephone_num...

Re: Live Map of the London Underground

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Post by exe34 »

Pathogen-David wrote: post #80
bookofjoe wrote: post #73

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FunFact: I have enjoyed HN for about 10 years even though I have NO IDEA what an API etc. is. A tribute to its welcoming big tent for non-techies like me who wouldn't know a dark pattern from dark matter.

If you're curious: An API is more or less just the communication boundary between two pieces of software. A common sign of a bad API (including this one) is when it presents data in an overly human-centric way rather than something more computer-friendly. For a human it's really easy to see "Regents Park" and "Regent's Park" are very very likely referring to the same station, but a computer can't know that unless a h…

this reminds me of the time I got on a train to Kingsley instead of King's Cross, because the train board only said "Kings" and I didn't think to check the boards/platform number in a rush.

Re: Live Map of the London Underground

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Post by bookofjoe »

Mountain_Skies wrote: post #100
unkeen wrote: post #88

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To the gloriously mansplaining sibling commenters: Do you really think a question has been asked in the parent comment? If you do, why?

For each person who is willing to speak up and say they don't understand something, there's usually dozens more who silently are wondering the same thing. Even if the parent commentor didn't want an explanation, they opened to floor for others to help out the silent folks who actually were curious as to the explanation.

So true. I have a rule of 100: for every person who takes the time and trouble to actively respond to something on the phone/by mail/online, there are 99 others who feel exactly the same way but can't be bothered.

Re: Live Map of the London Underground

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Post by Pathogen-David »

exe34 wrote: post #113
Pathogen-David wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you're curious: An API is more or less just the communication boundary between two pieces of software. A common sign of a bad API (including this one) is when it presents data in an overly human-centric way rather than something more computer-friendly. For a human it's really easy to see "Regents Park" and "Regent's Park" are very very likely referring to the same station, but a computer can't know that unless a h…

this reminds me of the time I got on a train to Kingsley instead of King's Cross, because the train board only said "Kings" and I didn't think to check the boards/platform number in a rush.

Ahh, that's the worst. Hopefully you realized your mistake sooner rather than later.

Re: Live Map of the London Underground

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Post by exe34 »

Pathogen-David wrote: post #115
exe34 wrote: post #113

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this reminds me of the time I got on a train to Kingsley instead of King's Cross, because the train board only said "Kings" and I didn't think to check the boards/platform number in a rush.

Ahh, that's the worst. Hopefully you realized your mistake sooner rather than later.

only went one or two stops the wrong way and turned around. I was new to the British train system.

Re: Live Map of the London Underground

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Post by lol768 »

Symbiote wrote: post #61
lol768 wrote: post #37

https://ben-james.notion.site/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 describes train status in free text that varies between stations. “Approaching Barnet”, “Near Waterloo”, “Heading to Bank”, “Departing Southgate”, “Leaving Hampstead”, etc. I'm not sure what you expected from an organisa…

It's also the organization that rolled out the second large stored-credit contactless payment system in the world (after Hong Kong), and was the first to introduce bank card contactless payments.

Hurrah. That was 13 years ago and it still doesn't support railcard discounts.

TfL may have been innovative a long time ago, but they haven't moved with the times at all. Hell, the Oyster POMs only got contactless payment readers in the last couple of weeks. Prior to that it was "chip 'n' pin" - y'know, the technology introduced back in 2004.

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