Matthew Somerville has done a bunch of cool stuff as well as this:
<a href="http://www.dracos.co.uk/" rel="nofollow">http://www.dracos.co.uk/</a>
Just this weekend I stumbled onto his site again when wanting to know where the nearest postbox to my new flat is.<p>Incidentally there is an official "real time map":
<a href="http://journeyplanner.tfl.gov.uk/im/RD-T.html" rel="nofollow">http://journeyplanner.tfl.gov.uk/im/RD-T.html</a>
It's less <i>cool</i>, but actually tells you at a glance what you really want to know: where disruptions are.
Where did you hear of Science Hack Day ?! I've never heard of it and would give a lot to have been there.<p>Now really annoyed (mutters to self under breath .. muttter mutter mutter ...)
Reminds me of this. (Though it is much older, and data, as I remember, come only from the timetable, it's not live.) <a href="http://www.swisstrains.ch/" rel="nofollow">http://www.swisstrains.ch/</a>
There was this one for Helsinki buses for a while:
<a href="http://transport.wspgroup.fi/hklkartta/defaultEn.aspx" rel="nofollow">http://transport.wspgroup.fi/hklkartta/defaultEn.aspx</a>
Nice. There's some odd bugs with a couple of the trains... I've just seen one travel from Kings Cross to West Ruislip, off the tracks and in under a minute.
I really wish this would be available for Amsterdam. I feel like GVB (the organization which organized public transit in the city) wouldn't publish an API.<p>Half the time I feel like the drivers don't even know where their trams are headed.