"An illiterate child from a small town in India falls asleep on a train and ends up lost in Calcutta, unable to find his way back home. Twenty-five years later, while living with his adoptive family in Australia, he locates his lost hometown using memories and Google Earth. (David Kushner, Vanity Fair)"
<a href="http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2012/11/india-orphan-google-earth-journey?src=longreads" rel="nofollow">http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2012/11/india-orphan-googl...</a>
At time of writing, 59% of trains are delayed. I have very fond memories of train travel in India. I learned a lot about relaxing, and going with the flow.
Very nice app esp. in context of India where train timings are highly unpredictable.How are they getting real time data - GPS fitted or Indian rail opened APIs?<p>Good that they mentioned why it is not exact real time ..."For security and regulatory reasons, the information published on RailRadar is delayed for 5 or more minutes."<p>edit: Rephrased.
The same thing can be done with SF MUNI.
<a href="http://www.nextmuni.com/googleMap/?a=sf-muni&r=KT&r=N&r=M&r=L&r=J&d=KT__OB1&s=7354" rel="nofollow">http://www.nextmuni.com/googleMap/?a=sf-muni&r=KT&r=...</a><p>I check this before I leave every morning. I live just north of the Muni Metro East yard, so I can tell when a nice empty train is about to go into service and run over to the station just in time to catch it.<p>(In theory you can enable every train and bus line at once, but after a certain point the page never loads)
This is very nice, but does it breach Google's Ts&Cs with regard to business asset tracking? I only ask because I wanted to make something similar (though not India or trains)<p><a href="https://developers.google.com/maps/terms" rel="nofollow">https://developers.google.com/maps/terms</a> section 10.2b(iii)
There were quite a few posts like this for different countries, so:
<a href="http://rasp.yandex.ru/map/trains/#center=47.140977%2C54.427783,zoom=5" rel="nofollow">http://rasp.yandex.ru/map/trains/#center=47.140977%2C54.4277...</a><p>Trains visualized (mostly Russian)
This uses their schedules not actual tracking, but trains tend to run on time now.
By "mapped live" I was hoping to see the trains move on the map. Even if it wasn't 100% accurate, it would dramatically boost the cool factor to see the trains animated along the tracks. Just an idea. I love what you've already built.
I am not sure how this can be useful for some one. When I want to take a train journey, I would like to know my train's position a few hours before I leave or when I am already at that station. I would not be sitting in front of this website and locating my train. A simple service of informing me about the delay by SMS would just be good enough. Also, the webpage loads a bit slowly on my laptop. On my smartphone with a 3G connection, it does not work at all.