Friday, June 25, 2010

Live Live London Tube Map

As you may have noticed, we at Velo Mondial are very happy about innovative stuff like tools and gadgets. The Live London  Tube Map shows all trains on the London Underground network in approximately real time, and is strangely yet completely mesmerising! It may serve no real purpose to most of us, but we defy - together with our friends from LEPT in London - you to find a more hypnotic site on the net. This map shows all trains (yellow pins) on the London Underground network in approximately real time. Click the stations for a local map of that station. 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 on 19/20th June 2010. Play the clip under this blog or have a direct look yourself.