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Reminds me of this real time map of trains in France (including subways, in Paris at least) : https://carto.graou.info/48.6/3/7/0/0


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Paris subway comes to mind...

Oh nice ! Thank you :)

For subways, it looks like it’s limited to Paris but trains seems to be shown all across the country.


Poetic vision of Paris subway : http://i.imgur.com/TyPhSok.png

Poetic vision of Paris streets : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2Mkz5F_yME



An interactive map of the Paris metro: vasyenmetro.com

It tries to model an ancient (and magnificient) machine built in the 1930s: http://goo.gl/XjOFJy

It won 1st prize in a competition by RATP (which operates the Paris metro): http://goo.gl/C5bILT


Well, technically, not all of these are strictly subways: there's plenty of above-ground lines represented here.

Still, it's very interesting to see these to scale. I did not realize Parisian subway system was so compact.


You can see subway too. Both Toei and Metro operated lines. Their colours are faded to indicate underground.

I was impressed to find the JR train I am currently sitting on. As my train started moving out of the station, its simulation moved immediately. I cannot tell whether this is realtime data or just because the train is perfectly on schedule.


I think Paris subway is driverless (at least some lines I traveled on). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_automated_urban_metro_...

Have you seen the subway extensions in Paris?

Two I've found interesting... Tokyo: https://minitokyo3d.com/

India (not a subway, but the scale here makes it fascinating): https://railradar.railyatri.in/

I haven't found one for London (my hometown), but there is this interesting animation project that uses historical data to demonstrate passenger flow on the system. http://wgallia.com/#!underground


Similarly, Paris is building 200km+ of new fully automated, fully grade separated, mostly underground metro covering the Paris metro area, and using the opportunity for urban redevelopment as well:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Paris_Express


Very cool, but FYI, this is not a "subway" map. It is a transportation map. Trains, Planes, Monorails. The page's title is "Mini Tokyo 3D" not "Real-Time Tokyo Subway Map"

From 2008 to 2012 a friend and I spent at least 2 - 3 times per week obsessively 'running track' in the Paris metro.

It's definitely one of the most interesting systems in the world, with a lot of hidden secrets. Despite years of systematic exploration, and having walked the length of the entire system, we were still finding artefacts.

For the interested, in my opinion the most complete writeups of the system was written by my exploring partner.

http://web.archive.org/web/20130513204844/http://www.sleepyc...


My bad. I heard from this from a friend that used to work at the RATP (Paris Subway). Thanks you for the link, very instructive !

In Paris, we used to have special boards at big stations: a map of the subway system, and a button board with one button per station in the city; if you pressed a button, the path would light on the map explaining how to reach it:

https://spacefiction.files.wordpress.com/2017/11/indicateur_...

Those appeared in 1937, so they're very old tech; it would be fun to have a pocket version.

They've since disappeared and been replaced by touch screens, but those are just not the same.

https://spacefiction.fr/2017/11/06/patrick-modiano-et-la-mem...


It draws subway lines on the map (in a similar way to the 'traffic' layer)

Reminds me of this Moscow metro map turned inside out: https://www.bagaevka.ru/foto.pl?pid=1431

I've had this project in the back of my mind for a long time. Use some kind of discreet inertial navigation while riding subways, then render the paths over views looking down from above-ground. Kind of like an over (under) lay to see where the trains actually go. You can hear the subways rumble in many shops along the lines, but I'm always curious where exactly they are -- imagining the ground was transparent and I could just see those people sitting while zipping by underfoot.

Hope they added wagons. Underground experience in Paris was odd few years ago, to say the least.
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