Recently stumbled across this live map of trains in Hungary:
http://elvira.mav-start.hu/terkep/ (http://elvira.mav-start.hu/terkep/)
It's quite something!
The closest the UK has, I think, is this:
http://traintimes.org.uk/map/ (http://traintimes.org.uk/map/)
However, I've heard that National Rail will shortly be releasing the data required to make maps more like the Hungarian map.
Do other countries have equivalent maps?
In the Netherlands even the national railway does not know where their trains are at any moment of the day! :o
There's this for the London underground.
http://traintimes.org.uk/map/tube/
Of course, for the UK it would be intersting if they showed both where the trains are, and where they are supposed to be...
Live map for Czechia: http://www.cd.cz/mapa/
Live map for Slovakia: http://poloha.vlaky.net/
Fantastic! Interesting that the Slovak page has a minimap displaying some (mostly international) Czech services.
that's very intersting - simtrans could have simllar idea - timetabling so if trains are late - they show up on map that saying red train - late or green - on time
In Switzerland there is this page: http://www.swisstrains.ch/
Unfortunately it has no longer the current timetable data...
Map of Poland with almost all passenger trains: http://mapapkp.appspot.com/. By default, map is zoomed to my city. Some boxes, that describes trains, contains delay time.
All Regio trains (without Regios of some small operators): http://mapapociagow.pl/ .
The first of Emil's maps works also in Germany....
At least as far as Thuringia.
omikron
I am amazed, Emil. Your map actually works in Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Finland too :-) Has Poland become the centre of Europe, where all train operations are monitored?
omikron
I am not sure if this uses information from cellphones? It works also for Berlin, even though the trains are several meters off the track ...
I suspect that its trains run in a straight line from station to station, thus not GPS at all... Maybe Emil can help us with the Polish description?
omikron
München S-Bahn has live informations ... as they use hafas, all deutsche Bahn should be covered; but aparently they just offer no interface to it.
http://s-bahn-muenchen.hafas.de/bin/help.exe/dn?tpl=livefahrplan
Quote from: prissi on March 08, 2012, 03:31:31 PM
It works also for Berlin, even though the trains are several meters off the track ...
It works for the UK as well (or at least, Birmingham/W Midlands as far south as Banbury, Manchester, but not London oddly). Also works for the Cotswold line, where two trains just crossed and a Bus is apparently heading for Chipping Norton from Kingham, and indeed everything west of Reading seems to work too.
The markers are a few miles off the nearest track, though, so it needs a bit of intuition to read. I get the impression it can't be all operators/services though (or else the Severn Beach line is completely devoid of trains...)
Quote from: omikron on March 08, 2012, 03:35:11 PMMaybe Emil can help us with the Polish description?
Yes, I can translate some text for you.
Quote from: Combuijs on March 04, 2012, 11:06:41 AM
In the Netherlands even the national railway does not know where their trains are at any moment of the day! :o
http://kubus.mailspool.nl/spoorkaart/ (http://kubus.mailspool.nl/spoorkaart/)
This one also shows the supposed routes very neatly, and real-time delays.
Nice one, very nice!
I would like to know how this is working, because I don't think Dutch Railways is the source of the information. Maybe based on mobile phone information?
Thank you for the link. I will monitor the next few weeks how accurate it is!