Curiously, when you zoom out, you can scroll as far east as the Polish/Byelorussian border, but in west/south direction you can barely see all of former East Germany.
Berlin public transport in real time
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Re: Berlin public transport in real time
#72The URL: > http://fahrinfo.vbb.de/bin/help.exe Who would run this on a webserver?
RewriteRule /bin/help.exe /node/whatever.js [L,QSA] # where's your CGI now? I have seen such rewrites in place to keep old CGI URLs from breaking, as their consumers were scattered all over time and space, and it was easier to internally remap the old URLs (which have over the years essentially become a public API) than have them stop working.
Yea, had a colleague many years ago who worked on a very large web site where all the php files ended in .asp
Re: Berlin public transport in real time
#73Real time public transport in Vilnius: http://stops.lt/vilnius/#vilnius/map/en
Select this icon: http://stops.lt/vilnius/_images/vehicles.gif, on the right, to show vehicles as bubbles.
It is real time from GPS transmitters inside the vehicles.
Re: Berlin public transport in real time
#74Earlier quoted context omitted.
In my city, Eindhoven in the Netherlands, traffic lights are often calibrated to make sure that buses don't have to stop at a red light.
God, how I wish I lived in the Netherlands...
We need engineers in the Netherlands, so you could move if you really wanted to.
Re: Berlin public transport in real time
#75Isn't this a security concern?
Would that make https://www.flightradar24.com/ a much bigger concern?
Re: Berlin public transport in real time
#76Looks like they are just interpolating the location between two stations using the expected arrival times. If no expected arrival times are available, they simply simulate the location to match the planned arrival times. So this is not really "live". > VBB-Livekarte zeigt berechnete Positionen der Fahrzeuge zwischen zwei Stationen; falls kein Live-Fahrplan vorhanden, dann Position gemäß geplanten Fahrzeiten
Agreed, it's not really live, but still cool. There's a similar project for Swiss trains here: http://maps.vasile.ch/transit-sbb/ Source is available on Github (not my project).
The same thing exists for Austria as well: http://zugradar.oebb.at/
Re: Berlin public transport in real time
#77this could be used to make the most incredible 'scotland yard' mmowiw
Re: Berlin public transport in real time
#78Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's quite easy to make this particular *.exe path return an "Internal Error" by fuzzing the GET parameters, which may or may not be due to someone having written something that parses user-supplied data in C that then segfaults :)
Assuming that they're even using C. It may as well be a dumped executable Lisp image.
The company behind that software, HAFAS (which is used almost everywhere in the German-speaking countries) constantly advertises for C++ and Java positions. As far as I'm aware the main part of the software, including the web facing portions, is written in C++.
The software has a long history, the first webserver with it was started in 1995 and even that most likely reused logic from their first version of 1989. So the language choice is not too surprising.
Re: Berlin public transport in real time
#79Helsinki has one for their trams, subway and ferries: http://live.mattersoft.fi/hsl/Default.aspx?lang=en I really wish there was this service for buses. Quite often the digital displays saying when the bus will arrive are inaccurate, as are the actual timetables printed on the bus stop (when there is traffic etc.)
Depending on the city, some actually do have live(ish) bus location information available through public APIs.
Los Angeles County was one such I think. I used theirs for some information visualization art projects a couple years ago.
Re: Berlin public transport in real time
#80Now I'm even more glad I moved to Berlin from NYC..!