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Live map of London Underground trains

Monday, 21 June 2010, 11:55

"This map shows all trains on the London Underground network … The trains move in approximately real time. … Live departure data is fetched from the TfL API, and then it does a bit of maths and magic. It’s surprisingly okay given this was done in only a few hours at Science Hackday…[by Matthew Somerville et al]"

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 Saturday, 26 January 2008, 11:54 0

Beijing to Hamburg in 15 days by rail. Biggest snag: the switch between standard-gauge to Russian-gauge at the Chinese-Mongolian and Belarusia-Polish borders.

 Tuesday, 5 June 2007, 11:03 0

Google is adding a system to allow public transport authorities to add information about buses and underground lines and their scheduling information to Google Maps.

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