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A 3D live map of the London Underground

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This is a nice illustration of WebGL but the Hacker News title ("A 3D live map of the London Underground") is overblown.

Live? if you can choose the speed of the trains then it is not really representing a live scenario.

3D? There's some jiggling of the tunnels but Camden Town station appears to have 2 tunnels and doesn't feature any of its 3D cross-platform glory illustrated here: https://simanaitissays.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/camdentow...

This is just a visual experiment, it has no intention to be used as a service. It is live because it is pulling live data from the TfL prediction summary API, which returns approximate arrival times for the next 30 minutes. The default simulation speed is 5 and it can be adjusted to 1 for an experience as 'live' as http://traintimes.org.uk/map/tube/

As for the Circle line, it is just commented out in the code because it wasn't really adding anything. The prediction summary doesn't return isolated data for the Circle (at least it didn't when I made this experiment) so I had to improvise by merging District, H&C and Metropolitan. It was an approximation of the approximation. It wasn't looking great, so I just left it out.

Thanks for clearing that up!

Cool. It would be even cooler if it also included a layer with a 3d map of the city :)

I don't have a 'wheel', I have a trackpad - can't figure out how to zoom. Any suggestions? (thanks - interesting visualization tool!)

Use whatever you use for scrolling, I'm on a mac trackpad and it worked for me.

no dice here. :(

Two finger brushing worked for me. Down voting parent is pretty weak.

Doesn't work here either. Scrolling scrolls (or tries to), it doesn't zoom.

"Right click to pan" also isn't so functional on a trackpad.

http://tracker.geops.ch/ got submitted to HN a quite a few times but never got traction.

It's only 2d and missing parts of the Transport for London infrastructure, but it's truly global otherwise.

http://tracker.geops.ch/?z=2&s=1&x=-3057.5011&y=5968203.1664...

Perhaps it shouldn't spam the browser's back button with new entries every time you make a little move on the map. Especially if all those entries do nothing when you click them.

Here is a genuinely live, but two dimensional map: http://traintimes.org.uk/map/tube/

You can click on the trains to get ETAs.

The locations are estimates, but will be between the right stations.

Great work. This is a nice flat map in a more traditional style but with a few improvements over the normal one: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/10/Sameboat...

The TfL APIs are really good. I made this LED line status strip with them: https://unop.uk/dev/train-disruption-indicator-with-a-blinky...

It seems that the circle line is missing. I guess that all its stations are shared with other lines, so the network is not missing much, but still it would be nice for the sake of completeness... And agree with the previous comment, it would be awesome if the map was truly "live".

It's not live, this is (almost) live: http://traintimes.org.uk/map/tube/

Just for information, you can click the numbers at the bottom to view some other cool stuff. I also liked the track on #8, try and figure out what it is, took me a while...

What's the browser of the day for this one? My Safari window just stays black.

Use WIFI in tunnels.

amazing.

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