Live Map of the London Underground

https://www.londonunderground.live/

by LourensT • 1 year ago

508 115 1 year ago

londonunderground.live

jaffa2• 1 year ago

Very neat. I like it.

imarkphillips• 1 year ago

Very cool. Especially as it a real map not a 'network diagram' who is so confusing.

Bengalilol• 1 year ago

The map API used is somehow very good. I just discovered https://www.maptiler.com/company/

blitzar• 1 year ago

Data -> TfL live tube data
*You will regret using this data. You will regret using this API.*
It serves data from individual arrivals boards, which all spell stations differently
It has a load-balancer that regularly returns data that is older than the data returned in the previous request.

Won't someone think of the Ai overlords who will take care of all this for us in the future. A bit of consistency goes a long way.

urbandw311er• 1 year ago

Actually I think AI would have far less trouble joining the disparate data than traditional compute techniques.

chris_overseas• 1 year ago

Looks great but I'm watching this while sitting on a tube right now. What I assumed was my train was lagging by quite a bit and then disappeared!

ralferoo2• 1 year ago

This sounds like the start of a science fiction story where you find yourself transported to a parallel world...

bookofjoe5• 1 year ago

Yes, give us a holler when [if?] you return...

n4r9• 1 year ago

It's cool to see how fast the trains go on different lines. But... where's the Elizabeth line? You get the tooltip when you hover over it, but the polyline is missing.

bodyfour• 1 year ago

Waterloo&City seems to be missing too

pledg2• 1 year ago

If you hover over the line to the right of Blackfriars it says Waterloo and City, incorrectly.

throwaway519• 1 year ago

It's not a tube, it's an overground line. As evidenced by this Network Southeast livery.. on a tube train that's an overground train that goes entirely underground https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MhUDyX4DKXQ

Symbiote2• 1 year ago

I think it's present on the map, but is transparent or invisible in some way.

You can find it if you hover north-east of Waterloo.

megapolitics• 1 year ago

It’s probably excluded because TFL don’t classify it as an Underground line. Similarly, hovering over the DLR will produce a tooltip but the line is excluded.

teleforce• 1 year ago

One of the best game I ever played is the text based souvenir game shopping game on Windows 3. I can't recall the name of the game now since it's more than 30 years ago, but it's about shopping souvenirs using London Underground Tube. You have a semi realistic time constraints like train schedules, your flight schedules and of course list of souvenirs items to shop. This is totally offline since there is no Internet available at the time but it's very engaging nonetheless.

My proposal for the modern version of the game is to use real-time train schedules (with delays, ticket discounts, etc) that are available publicly on the Internet for many metropolitan cities in the world for examples Tokyo, London and Berlin.

Imagine you can have a real-world realistic in-app in-game items purchases feature that you personally can buy in the game and delivered to you or anyone you fancy of giving souvenirs except that you only virtually went there.

djxfade• 1 year ago

Sounds kinda like Backpacker: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backpacker_(video_game_series)

marliechiller• 1 year ago

Maybe a slight bug: the overlay doesnt appear to be locked to the map - when I scroll around, the overlay moves. Currently the northern lines' southern terminal is hovering over Kingston rather than Morden!

ratatoskrt• 1 year ago

It serves data from individual arrivals boards, which all spell stations differently

It doesn't, at least not for most lines. TfL's data is notoriously inconsistent, with multiple backends used for different purposes. For most lines, the dot matrix indicators are fed by the signalling system and timetables (more modern signaling systems are timetable-aware). Meanwhile, the online API relies on estimates from TfL's TrackerNet.

cryptoboy2283• 1 year ago

No Elizabeth Line?

BillinghamJ• 1 year ago

Although it has a core section that does run underground through tube-like tunnels, it isn't classified as a tube line :) So isn't part of the "London Underground"

iLoveOncall• 1 year ago

From tracking the tube I'm in right now it seems to have around a minute of lag, that's pretty good to know when to leave your house, etc.

pjsg• 1 year ago

I note that the times for future stations are in UTC and not BST. Also, when you zoom in to only a couple of stations, the trains seem to vanish occasionally -- maybe when part of the train reaches the edge of the display. I also find it jarring that the trains appear above the buildings rather than get hidden by the buildings. I'd like to see the trains running along the surface... All of these suggestions are much easier to make than to implement!

Good job on this and pretty cool.

ainiriand• 1 year ago

This is one of the coolest things I've seen the whole morning.

ed_db• 1 year ago

Very cool, although it seems to be missing both the Waterloo & City line and the Hammersmith & City line.

Quarrel2• 1 year ago

Hammersmith & City + Lizzy Line missing, makes Farringdon look like a backwater rather than London's best connected station.

Carstairs• 1 year ago

It also has the met line extension in Watford that never got built.

jipl104• 1 year ago

What basemap provider are you using? built with Deck.gl it seems. Very cool!

mike_hearn• 1 year ago

Sadly it seems to have broken, at least for me. I get:

dist.min.js:11 deck: LineString coordinates are malformed

and no trains appear :(

Geenkaas• 1 year ago

I once saw a rendering of parts of the underground showing the stations and the tracks in 3D (hand-drawn but in scale), what stood out to me is how much of the entire system is composed of stations and how little for the actual tubes connecting those areas, certainly in the busier areas. I was hoping to see the stations rendered as well as I never could find those images back. This looks very nice in any case, reminds me of marinetraffic.

lucianbr• 1 year ago

http://stations.albertguillaumes.cat/

hk__22• 1 year ago

Don’t miss the Châtelet one in Paris!

gadders• 1 year ago

"ChatGPT - please make Waterloo station into a Doom WAD."

pledg2• 1 year ago

Its a bit confusing as it only shows a single line for places that have multiple lines running on the same track

Quarrel2• 1 year ago

Yeah, no Lizzy line, for me at least.

sebzim4500• 1 year ago

The line is there, it's just hard to see. There are no trains on it though, as far as I can see.

bookofjoe5• 1 year ago

https://x.com/elizabethln_bot?lang=en

https://tfl.gov.uk/

ralferoo2• 1 year ago

The trains themselves have different colours though, so it's not too bad.

Personally, I think the stations themselves are a bit too dark and hide any train that's at the station once the trail disappear. But overall, I think this visualisation is beautiful.

TheOtherHobbes• 1 year ago

Trains in opposite directions overlap, which makes it very hard to see what's going on.

Also, trains disappear when they stop. Which is - uh - strange.

It's more pretty than practical. Trains marked with dots, arrows, or boxes would be far easier to read.

casenmgreen• 1 year ago

Live Map of the London Underground

Related Stories