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Re: Live Map of the London Underground

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Post by bryanrasmussen » Fri, Apr 11, 2025, 5:33 PM UTC

unkeen wrote: post #88

bookofjoe wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

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

Do you really think they're "mansplaining" to the user identified as bookofjoe?

Re: Live Map of the London Underground

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Post by tim333 » Fri, Apr 11, 2025, 5:34 PM UTC

MrsPeaches wrote: post #48

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…

Was this big one recently that took out the Zip cards?

Seems to be: "TfL’s efforts to deal with the cyber attack have resulted in a growing shutdown of its own systems, meaning that new zip cards used by children and teenagers cannot be obtained" "17-year-old male has been arrested on suspicion of Computer Misuse Act offences in relation to the attack. The teenager, who was arrested in Walsall ..." https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/tfl-cyber-attack-pers...

Re: Live Map of the London Underground

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Post by Althuns » Fri, Apr 11, 2025, 6:02 PM UTC

the_mitsuhiko wrote: post #34

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).

I just spent a bit of time in Wien and was blown away by the ease of use of their transit system and its integration into Google Maps. For someone from the US, it's like a different world.

Re: Live Map of the London Underground

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Post by unkulunkulu » Fri, Apr 11, 2025, 6:05 PM UTC

Oh no they will hit each other, someone call 911!

Re: Live Map of the London Underground

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Post by hei-lima » Fri, Apr 11, 2025, 6:15 PM UTC

Great job! But what really caught my attention was that map — the 3D structures are perfect, and I was able to see my own building. Does anyone know which one it is?

Re: Live Map of the London Underground

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Post by __jonas » Fri, Apr 11, 2025, 6:18 PM UTC

hei-lima wrote: post #95

Great job! But what really caught my attention was that map — the 3D structures are perfect, and I was able to see my own building. Does anyone know which one it is?

This one it seems:

https://www.maptiler.com/maps/#style=streets-v2&mode=2d&lang...

It looks like it uses OpenStreetMaps data.

Re: Live Map of the London Underground

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Post by ww520 » Fri, Apr 11, 2025, 6:30 PM UTC

unkulunkulu wrote: post #94

Oh no they will hit each other, someone call 911!

It's 999.

Re: Live Map of the London Underground

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Post by frakkingcylons » Fri, Apr 11, 2025, 7:06 PM UTC

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…

This is something that a small LLM handles quite well. I’m using one to normalize MTA delay reports so I can aggregate stuff in a sane way.

Re: Live Map of the London Underground

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Post by theginger » Fri, Apr 11, 2025, 7:08 PM UTC

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.

Best part of 20 years ago, which is a long time in anything, it's a lifetime in tech. About 15 years ago I used to work on some projects for greater London authority, we seemed to mostly be squatting on transport for London servers and they seemed to have good tech and people seemed to like using it. 5 years later they couldn't get away fast enough.

Re: Live Map of the London Underground

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Post by Mountain_Skies » Fri, Apr 11, 2025, 7:44 PM UTC

unkeen wrote: post #88

bookofjoe wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

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.