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Live Map of the London Underground

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Re: Live Map of the London Underground

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There's this board game we played as kids - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotland_Yard_(board_game) where you move around the London public transport system chasing Mr. X (everyone always wanted to play Mr. X) - it was really funny

I still play that game! Fairly popular in France, but nobody seems to know it in England weirdly enough. The newer board is a bit less readable than the 90's version. I also play it on my phone, although the AI isn't that good.

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

Trains in opposite directions overlap, which makes it very hard to see what's going on.

Also, trains disappear when they stop. Which is - uh - strange.

It's more pretty than practical. Trains marked with dots, arrows, or boxes would be far easier to read.

Re: Live Map of the London Underground

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post #49

There's this board game we played as kids - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotland_Yard_(board_game) where you move around the London public transport system chasing Mr. X (everyone always wanted to play Mr. X) - it was really funny

Grown ups play Mornington Crescent.

Re: Live Map of the London Underground

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I've seen visualisations similar to this before, but this one is by far the most beautiful and I could watch it all day. I echo the sentiments on the TfL API, I've built the same Tube Tracker app over and over for more than 10 years[1] as my go-to for learning new tools[2] or testing changes to frameworks[3] and I'm not sure it's ever improved. A chap called Chris Applegate wrote extensively about his battles more th…

I also implemented this 16 years ago[1] while researching a lot of new technology all at once, it was tricky but very satisfying to get it working.

[1]: https://github.com/charleskubicek/wheres-my-tube

Re: Live Map of the London Underground

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Tube Creature is also cool (the source of the tube paths for this map).

Particularly like the "Tube Tongues" metric — the second-most commonly spoken language after English by residents near each tube station, it paints a real picture of a diverse London:

https://misc.oomap.co.uk/tubecreature.com/#/tongues/current/...

Re: Live Map of the London Underground

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Last time I ran into something similar, I researched whether I could get real-time subway train location data for my city, St Petersburg. It turned out that such data unfortunately doesn't exist as far as I can tell. I did find an official open API for the ground transport though.

Re: Live Map of the London Underground

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I've seen visualisations similar to this before, but this one is by far the most beautiful and I could watch it all day. I echo the sentiments on the TfL API, I've built the same Tube Tracker app over and over for more than 10 years[1] as my go-to for learning new tools[2] or testing changes to frameworks[3] and I'm not sure it's ever improved. A chap called Chris Applegate wrote extensively about his battles more th…

its incredible the sentiment on TfL API without realising your country even has an API for your public transport. Thats a huge leap in itself, let alone an actively maintained one
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