Elephantsquared. » google maps http://elephantsquared.com hypertext & software Sat, 08 Oct 2011 19:53:44 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Live transit data http://elephantsquared.com/2011/06/live-transit-data/ http://elephantsquared.com/2011/06/live-transit-data/#comments Wed, 08 Jun 2011 11:41:10 +0000 George T http://elephantsquared.com/?p=1380 Following up my latest post on exploiting city data, Google just released live transit updates in Google Maps mobile and desktop. Google partnered with transit agencies to integrate live transit data in four U.S. cities and two European cities that include Boston, Portland, Ore., San Diego, San Francisco, Madrid and Turin.

When you click on a transit station or plan a transit route with Google Maps and there are delays or alerts related to your trip, you’ll now see “live departure times” (indicated with a special icon) and service alerts.

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The yellow pins are stations, the red pins trains. The trains move in approximately real time.

Apart from that you can also stalk all trains currently on approach to a particular station via this live train map.

Note that this was done in only a few hours at Science Hackday.

]]> http://elephantsquared.com/2010/06/live-train-map/feed/ 0 Stalking Santa’s journey around the world http://elephantsquared.com/2009/12/stalking-santa-s-journey-around-the-world/ http://elephantsquared.com/2009/12/stalking-santa-s-journey-around-the-world/#comments Wed, 23 Dec 2009 22:25:08 +0000 George T http://elephantsquared.com/?p=1158 Wondering about when Santa is coming to your town this Christmas? No need to worry. Thanks to NORAD that is tracking Santa’s journey around the world, you can find his current location on the 24th. The tracking will start in about 8 hours from now. So get ready for some stalking! You can also stalk him from your mobile phone! Just go to m.noradsanta.org or search for “Santa” in Google Maps.

Wouldn’t be awesome if Santa was using foursquare (..with his Google Nexus One)?! :P

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