New community train tracker app

[Oncenor]

I'm thinking of making an app led by the community to report real-time statuses of trains! E.g. approaching/arrived/leaving, doors open/closed and your current travelling experience.
You click on a station, and it shows the active or next departing train at each platform. You then declare the various statuses of the train you're interested in as mentioned above.
Thoughts on this - and are there any features you'd love to see?

 

[43096]

I'm thinking of making an app led by the community to report real-time statuses of trains! E.g. approaching/arrived/leaving, doors open/closed and your current travelling experience.
You click on a station, and it shows the active or next departing train at each platform. You then declare the various statuses of the train you're interested in as mentioned above.
Thoughts on this - and are there any features you'd love to see?

Why bother? It's never going to have as comprehensive coverage as the tracker apps that use the live data feeds from NR's systems.

 

[Oncenor]

Why bother? It's never going to have as comprehensive coverage as the tracker apps that use the live data feeds from NR's systems.

I'm going to do it as a fun side project. I love the idea of having the railfan community provide real time details about their favourite services and combining this with live rail data APIs would provide a much more accurate status.