Real-time map of Great Britain's rail network(map.signalbox.io) |
Real-time map of Great Britain's rail network(map.signalbox.io) |
Past similar HN submission got no attention, whereas the UK's top page. Interesting !
This means that if your train is running at half-speed or stopped but does not result in an official delay, the position will not match reality.
Hmm, that's...interesting?
https://www.signalbox.io/news/southeastern-launches-track-my...
Basically all of Europe, with varying levels of detail.
London: https://londonunderground.live
this reminds me of the London specific equivalent posted awhile back: https://londonunderground.live (previously discussed https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43651390).
I would like to be able to see when each road/section was built. I assume with GoogleEarth and other databases it should be possible to run some kind changelog comparison and do this at scale for at least the last 20 years or so.
Out of curiousity, where are you from? I find it interesting where only people who get so exercised about the UK get their info from...
The page, called Babitron, still exists and still keeps that delightful 2004 look. I visited it a few days ago. Unfortunately today there is a message "We are moving Babitron to a different server", so the link isn't working.
1. So it's Trainline on a persons phone that is tracking this info and using it to enrich this service? I use Trainline and didn't know it was doing that, but I do have location permissions on because I was told that powered the search picker when I started using the app.
2. What did they use _before_ Trainline? Or was Trainline selling user location data to them?
Or their API - it also expects device location data:
> At a minimum, requests to the detect endpoint _must_ contain a device's location measurement. Additional fields can be included where available to improve the accuracy of the returned results as outlined below.
I think you are missing the point - what is collecting data on all those trains.
This is matching your phone's location to the already public train data.
But what is getting that?
"You" here means another app that integrates their API (or you as an individual using the demo on their website). How the other app gets it is up to the other app - ideally it also just queries it directly and requires location permission.