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…
Live Map of the London Underground
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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.
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#62sick
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#63There's also OpenTrainTimes for mainline UK trains. E.g. https://www.opentraintimes.com/maps/signalling/wat#T_WATRLMN for London Waterloo
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#64I 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/
"ChatGPT - please make Waterloo station into a Doom WAD."
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#65Could you compute the heat-addition by the sub and the rail to the underground just by thermal radiation of the devices and passengers from this map?
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#66Why is it live?
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#67Cf. "A real-time 3D digital map of Tokyo's public transport system", https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37829061 , Oct 2023
Quite exceptional
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#68I love how it makes life seem slow paced. If this was a wallpaper I would stare at it all day
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#69Could you open source it ? Would love to contribute.
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#70Incidental to this, I'm now convinced that the tube map is overrated and a quasi-geographical map would suit London better. And by "quasi" I mean slightly expanded or contracted in certain spots for clarity but basically correct.
But the district labels are a bit too in the way right now, and in any case it would be nice to see the stations.