Ok, so this is so cool I just had to blog about it. Using some departure data fetched from the TfL API along with a bit of maths and magic, Matthew Somerville (with helpful hinderances from Frances Berriman and James Aylett) made a live train map for the London Underground. Yes, that’s right, this map shows all trains on the London Underground network.

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.

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

[ via - photo via pagedooley ]

Unexpected point of view in Google Maps (Street View) at Raceway Laguna Seca