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Live Map of the London Underground

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Re: Live Map of the London Underground

#33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Waterloo&City seems to be missing too

It's not a tube, it's an overground line. As evidenced by this Network Southeast livery.. on a tube train that's an overground train that goes entirely underground https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MhUDyX4DKXQ

The Waterloo and City was transferred to London Underground in 1994, as part of the privatisation (or not in this case) of British Rail.

As the only way to get trains on and off the line involves craning them out of the depot[1], they did retain their Network South East livery for about a decade after formally becoming an Underground line though, until repainted at an off line overhaul.

[1] There used to be a lift that could take a carriage at a time to surface tracks, but the Eurostar extension at Waterloo did for that.

Re: Live Map of the London Underground

#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 organisation still offering nothing but SMS-based MFA to its "customers" and one that got massively disrupted by a 17 year old in a cyber incident which seemed to paralyse the entire organisation a few months ago...

Re: Live Map of the London Underground

#38

The Austrian version of this is particularly cool because it has all forms of public transport on it: https://anachb.vor.at/ (click Kartenoptionen -> Live map -> alle einblenden).

And even API available (for some forms of public transport): https://www.wienerlinien.at/ogd_realtime/doku/ogd/wienerlini...

Re: Live Map of the London Underground

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Its a bit confusing as it only shows a single line for places that have multiple lines running on the same track

Yeah, no Lizzy line, for me at least.

The line is there, it's just hard to see. There are no trains on it though, as far as I can see.

Re: Live Map of the London Underground

#40

I once saw a rendering of parts of the underground showing the stations and the tracks in 3D (hand-drawn but in scale), what stood out to me is how much of the entire system is composed of stations and how little for the actual tubes connecting those areas, certainly in the busier areas. I was hoping to see the stations rendered as well as I never could find those images back. This looks very nice in any case, remind…

http://stations.albertguillaumes.cat/

Don’t miss the Châtelet one in Paris!
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