alt Hacker NewsLive map of public transport in Belgium
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For Deutsche Bahn it will be just a photo....
A non-live map for trains in Tokyo
https://greggman.github.io/tokyo-trains
I think the live map is cool but (1) I don't know where to get that data and (2) seeing things at 100x speed is, IMO, more interesting as a visual
It's based off schedules but only Toei's schedules are easy to get (AFAICT). I got permission for the most of the others, but I thought the visual was good as is ... mostly. Maube I'll revisit.
This thread is full of people linking similar projects for different locations. The next step must be to combine it all to a global live map. Useful for... something, I'm sure.
I don't want to be negative here, just asking out of curiosity. Does anyone actually use apps/services like this? Why would it be useful?
Normally when I want to get somewhere I just use local public transport navigation app which calculates the route and shows me estimated time of when my tram or bus arrives (taking into account its GPS data). Why would I need to know live position of every vehicle in the city?
Nevertheless, cool project!
Similar map for the Netherlands: http://ovzoeker.nl/
Even more impressive: https://api.transitous.org/ (but not everything is live)
Recent related thread (UK): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48802535
Would be perfect post end of January for next FOSDEM.
See https://zbiorkom.live/cities for a live public transport in several cities in Poland.
That's awesome, we need map to cover all over the world
Pittsburgh!
Awesome! Looking at the metro stop near me here in Brussels, the trains seemed stuck for a while at the station. Not impossible this was just real :) Great way to admire the density and connectivity of our public transport!!
I've first seen this in Moscow around 2018 (in Google Maps) and then in Ivano-Frankovsk in 2021 (some local custom app). I think such live maps are the best use of public funds one could imagine.
This is well made, would love to have this in my own country as I can never trust the actual timers on the bus stops. How do you get access to the data? Is it a public government API? How did you manage to map all the routes too?
Fascinating... I have a thing with maps. Does the information come from a central server that runs some open-source protocol for public transport, or is this gathered from different endpoints in different formats?
feel like its computed from the time table and not live or am I mistaken?
Great companion to https://irail.be, a minimalist counterpart to this site, also based on open data.
same thing with global data (but of course not full coverage everywhere): https://travic.app
I just figured out that on Mallorca, the busses are shown like that on Google Maps. Which to me was mind blowing. I had never seen it, it's so convenient.
Really nice! The place names are a little hard to read especially in dark mode, other than that great job! Thanks for sharing!
a similar real-time map for trains in norway: https://togkart.banenor.no/
Another very global one as well - https://trains.fyi/world-map/
In the netherlands we have 9292 which imo is the most mature implementation.
Soon we'll be needing a live map of all the live maps in the world.
Wow very useful thank you !
Author here! Thanks for posting the app!
Two notes on what you are looking at:
Not every vehicle is a live position. STIB-MIVB and TEC publish vehicle positions and those are shown as received. De Lijn and NMBS/SNCB do not, so their vehicles are computed from the timetable and corrected with the delays they do publish (GTFS-RT). Each marker is tagged live, computed with delay, or computed, and the computed ones are drawn dimmer.
All data is open data. The four operators publish through one federal portal (data.belgianmobility.io) under CC BY 4.0: GTFS for timetables and route geometry, GTFS-RT for delays, alerts and positions where available. NMBS ships no route geometry, so train paths are routed over Infrabel's open track network.
This is not specific to Belgium. Nearly every country publishes public-transport open data in the same formats, and I was able to locate feeds for most European countries. A map like this can be built for almost any of them!
Happy to answer questions on the data or the simulation :)
Nice effort. Well done.
Those who don’t bookmark but write url by memory get extra points /s
Ptm.be is for rent btw (public transport map)
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Similar real time traffic map for Switzerland <https://maps.trafimage.ch/ch.sbb.netzkarte?baselayers=ch.sbb...>