mackers.com— Mackers' Dartmaps is a great example of a real-time application making use of Google Maps.The DART is frequent train service in Dublin, Ireland.
Feb 16, 2006View in Crawl 4
Fantastic Digg++If only transport agencies routinely made their timetable and realtime information available in XML format, we could do lots of cool things.
"But i dont think its THAT accurate - if you keep it on for, say 30 mins, note the positions of all trains, then reload the page, they are all in a compleatly different place!"That's probably to do with the animation function not being accurate. Presumably when you referesh it goes back and retrieves the last known postion. He's working with incomplete data, from what I can see, as he only has the last station as a guide.
Very nice. From my window I look out at the tracks (see <a class="user" href="http://www.crann.tcd.ie/building/feed3.php?page=webcams.php).">http://www.crann.tcd.ie/building/feed3.php?page=webcams.php).</a> (And now you can too! Obviously if you have waaay too much time on your hands) This camera is facing east pretty much, and is situated at the Northeast corner of Trinity College, in the centre of Dublin. The tracks follow the curve that "cuts off" this Northeast corner between Pearse Street and Westland Row. (If you click on 'Hybrid' on the train map, you can see Pearse St. Train Station - it's the long grey building opposite this corner that the tracks (thick black line) run into).Unfortunately the system doesn't work too well - there are DARTS that run past my window, but aren't on the real time train map at all. But it's a valiant attempt none the less. (And to all those who complain that this isn't a hack or whatever, give this guy a break and say something constructive you big pile of losers.)
simdFeb 16, 2006
Fantastic Digg++If only transport agencies routinely made their timetable and realtime information available in XML format, we could do lots of cool things.
simdFeb 16, 2006
"But i dont think its THAT accurate - if you keep it on for, say 30 mins, note the positions of all trains, then reload the page, they are all in a compleatly different place!"That's probably to do with the animation function not being accurate. Presumably when you referesh it goes back and retrieves the last known postion. He's working with incomplete data, from what I can see, as he only has the last station as a guide.
petercubFeb 16, 2006
BTW: <a class="user" href="http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=179">http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=179</a> is down, too
comedydaveFeb 17, 2006
Very nice. From my window I look out at the tracks (see <a class="user" href="http://www.crann.tcd.ie/building/feed3.php?page=webcams.php).">http://www.crann.tcd.ie/building/feed3.php?page=webcams.php).</a> (And now you can too! Obviously if you have waaay too much time on your hands) This camera is facing east pretty much, and is situated at the Northeast corner of Trinity College, in the centre of Dublin. The tracks follow the curve that "cuts off" this Northeast corner between Pearse Street and Westland Row. (If you click on 'Hybrid' on the train map, you can see Pearse St. Train Station - it's the long grey building opposite this corner that the tracks (thick black line) run into).Unfortunately the system doesn't work too well - there are DARTS that run past my window, but aren't on the real time train map at all. But it's a valiant attempt none the less. (And to all those who complain that this isn't a hack or whatever, give this guy a break and say something constructive you big pile of losers.)
labthugFeb 18, 2006
dugg. Wou'd be cool if they could hack the sat images to show the trains instead though. Of course this would be really hard.