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Live map of London buses and river services
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Good to see someone using our data to do something innovative.
Yep it's very good. A warning for anyone relying on it to catch a bus though, it seems to be about 1 Min behind reality; a few buses stop right outside where I am now and that site shows them as being 1 Min away (both on the text description and where the red dot is) whereas the Countdown website shows it as 'due' and the bus is physically there.
Hmm, it seems not to always show the actual route that buses take though. Just looking at one route and seeing the red dot indicating a moving bus apparently go through two culs-de-sac and a footpath (yes, the most direct route between two consecutive bus stops on the route - if you go on foot), rather than on the actual through road the buses use...
Indeed - I've seen this, or something like this on three different routes now. The other two cases involving a hail-and-ride section (and the red moving bus shown as taking another, parallel road); and a one-way system, with a red moving bus shown as taking the wrong way around (a fairly extensive) one-way system, on which the bus stops in each direction (on different roads) possibly share common names (taken from the roads that link each side of the one-way system).
So, a good thing, but some fine tuning needed!
Indeed - I've seen this, or something like this on three different routes now. The other two cases involving a hail-and-ride section (and the red moving bus shown as taking another, parallel road); and a one-way system, with a red moving bus shown as taking the wrong way around (a fairly extensive) one-way system, on which the bus stops in each direction (on different roads) possibly share common names (taken from the roads that link each side of the one-way system).
So, a good thing, but some fine tuning needed!
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I just saw the 73 cutting right across Soke Newington common. I hope it really didnt
No, it's jsut using the stop and real-time data.
Line of route data is a *lot* harder to implement.
I just saw the 73 cutting right across Soke Newington common. I hope it really didnt
I've just seen LJ62BVE overtaking just about everything else on the 73 down the Pentonville Road. Must be an impressively fast service!
martinsh
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How do I stop the map from filling the whole screen ? [ It means I can't select another route ] I've tried altering the screen resolution, but that doesn't work
Strange, the buses do not move when I look at the map and also I can no longer see moving trains on the tube map on the same site when a few days ago I could. No issue with other live sites like opentraintimes or flightradar24 though.
Peter Mugridge
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It appears from the map that HS2 has already been built.... look at Euston station on zoom...
telstarbox
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As a workaround, can you press Ctrl + minus? (Ctrl + 0 will reset to default).
After looking into this further I can see that the map does periodically update but there are no moving buses, just fixed positions updated periodically. I have tried three different browsers and still can't get the map to show moving buses.
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It doesn't get very far out of the station though
The map looks like a standard Open Street Map so someone had a bit of fun adding that tag.
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