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- senfo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2So how do I put myself on there so people know where I am? Seriously. I'd like to add GPS tracking to my cell phone and have a little blip of myself on Google Maps. I just want to make sure that I have the ability to turn it on/off when I want.
Is that possible? - misterpony, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Awesome.
- eltomo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Great idea, though i see the trains have a hard time staying on the rails.
- Dobriak, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Sigh, this page makes me miss Dublin bad. I better swing by the store a get me some Guinness. Brilliant!
Baile Atha Cliath go Brach! - calyx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1If you'd ever taken the DART you'd know all about it :-)
- sewalsh, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1neat idea. digg.
- podgey22, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Diggit Bang.
BANG and the site is gone! - roadies, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I love watching this thing.
"Oh no! They're going to CRASH!
Phew, that was close." - zalealb, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1DART is also the name for Dallas, Texas transit system. Dallas Area Rapid Transit...
just an bit of info - RadicalBender, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0That kinda freaked me out there for a second. For a second I saw DART and thought "Dallas Area Rapid Transit," which is my local transit system. Then I realized it was "Dublin Area Rapid Transit." So, darn.
- basegreen, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0For our american chums, the train is pronounced "DORT".
Thanks. - Vision77, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I would love to see this for Chicago
- cliph, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0@basegreen,
It's only pronounced "DORT" by D4 heads, surely. - LatvianHedgehog, on 10/12/2007, -0/+085 diggs and already down ? damn
- theprodigy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Practically any time you've got to employ screenscraping to make your program work, you've earned the right to call it a hack.
- b_timmins, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0re airlines, not on Google Maps but there's a set of kmls for Google Earth dugg at http://www.fboweb.com/antest/ge/intro.aspx a few weeks ago which lets you see all planes anywhere in the world flying to 6 US airports.
- cliph, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0For the benefit of metalgore32, a hack is can be any neat application of technology or code and can be found in the dictionary as:
5. (Computers) A clever computer program or routine within a
program to accomplish an objective in a non-obvious
fashion.
[PJC]
You can find many other wordings of the same or similar definition. - aldreneo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0The digg effect allreday? Crappy web servers.
- roadtrippy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0It would be cool if airlines would do something like this. I'm sure for security reasons it would probably never happen, but imagine going to an Internet terminal in an airport and being able to see where that delayed flight is.
Nice work. - dknighton, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Could someone write an article on the definition of a "hack" and post it to digg? I'll happily to my part to get it promoted to the homepage.
- hollerith, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Guess what a 'digg' means in Dublin
- jrooks, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0One word...WOW! Yet another thing to keep me distracted at work.
- gwax, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0That is fantastically awesome. +DIGG
Now, does someone want to hack one of these up for the T in Massachusetts? - probegt93, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"I would love to see this for Chicago - posted by vision77"
That would be really cool. It would look really neat on the map with the many train lines throught the Chicago area. What the heck include the ' L ' trains also. - MWWLSE, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0www.nextbus.com
- Limdeswein, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0@senfo
If you are looking to develop something on your own you can check out J2ME's location API:
http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=179
and here are some articles/tutorials:
http://developers.sun.com/techtopics/mobility/apis/articles/location/
http://devnet.developerpipeline.com/documents/s=9851/q=1/ddj0601i/0601i.html
Of course you'd have to tie this into the Google Maps API:
http://www.google.com/apis/maps/ - nihilator, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"It would be cool if airlines would do something like this. I'm sure for security reasons it would probably never happen, but imagine going to an Internet terminal in an airport and being able to see where that delayed flight is."
posted by roadtrippy
Being able to track flights online has been around for years! For example, www.flightview.com - Avogadro65, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Using an API is NOT a hack.
Screen scraping is clever and sometimes "hacked" together, but I would hardly call it a hack, since it was covered in the textbook of my very first programming class.
Things like this are exactly what Google intended when they made the Google Maps API available. - cliph, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0The server's taking a beating, it's not down, just slow.
- simd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"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. - pauliewoll, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0cliph:
> It's only pronounced "DORT" by D4 heads, surely.
According to the guy (or "goy") whose voice is used to narrate the book I'm currently reading, it's "Dorsh". - Monamo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0nicely done - but dear god stop with the use of the word "hack" when related to Google and their tools
- jesusphreak, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"That kinda freaked me out there for a second. For a second I saw DART and thought "Dallas Area Rapid Transit," which is my local transit system. Then I realized it was "Dublin Area Rapid Transit." So, darn."
Ha, me too. I take the DART just about every single day. - cliph, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Would the "hack" haters prefer if I'd used "mash-up" instead? :P
- keane, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0@Dobriak
Up Cork!
(Daon Phoblacht Chorcaí) - tedm, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Anyone in Dublin able to look out the window and tell us how accurate this is?
- daemonx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Now,if they only showed the real train as well...hmmm
- starbird, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Man, that looks just like the highway map of the Boston, MA area
- sparty1969, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Which one talke me to Bono's house. I am suppose to meet him for lunch on Friday.
- ockabewis, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Awesome!!! Digg++
- comedydave, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Very nice. From my window I look out at the tracks (see http://www.crann.tcd.ie/building/feed3.php?page=webcams.php). (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.) - kitykity, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Aw darn, I thought this was going to be for Dallas, we call our train DART as well.
- simd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Fantastic Digg++
If only transport agencies routinely made their timetable and realtime information available in XML format, we could do lots of cool things. - byte, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I live in Dublin but not near DART lines, so I cant cheack its accuracy. 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!
-- /usr/bin/byte - DaveIvers, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Fantastic. About time we had something like this for Dublin. Any chance you could makle it mobile and do one for the busses too :)
- PeterCub, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"Server Failure: The name server was unable to process this query." No digg
- Endpoint, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Wow. If only we had something like this that covered the whole of the UK, merging in buses and trains.
- potifer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0San Francisco buses: http://www.nextmuni.com/googleMap/test.jsp?a=sf-muni&r=22
Too bad the 7 ain't on it :( - PeterCub, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0BTW: http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=179 is down, too
- LabThug, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0dugg. Wou'd be cool if they could hack the sat images to show the trains instead though. Of course this would be really hard.
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