Live map of public transport in Belgium

(openbaarvervoerbelgie.be)

26 points | by coinfused 1 hour ago

12 comments

  • gworf 1 minute ago
    Similar real time traffic map for Switzerland <https://maps.trafimage.ch/ch.sbb.netzkarte?baselayers=ch.sbb...>
  • OvervCW 0 minutes ago
    Similar map for the Netherlands: http://ovzoeker.nl/
  • palavrov 5 minutes ago
    Would be perfect post end of January for next FOSDEM.
  • wouterjanl 9 minutes ago
    Awesome! Looking at the metro stop near me here in Brussels, the trains seemed stuck for a while at the station. Not impossible this was just real :) Great way to admire the density and connectivity of our public transport!!
  • jpoesen 10 minutes ago
    Great companion to https://irail.be, a minimalist counterpart to this site, also based on open data.
  • Hacker_Yogi 8 minutes ago
    Really nice! The place names are a little hard to read especially in dark mode, other than that great job! Thanks for sharing!
  • neals 10 minutes ago
    I just figured out that on Mallorca, the busses are shown like that on Google Maps. Which to me was mind blowing. I had never seen it, it's so convenient.
  • jeffjeffersen 18 minutes ago
    This is well made, would love to have this in my own country as I can never trust the actual timers on the bus stops. How do you get access to the data? Is it a public government API? How did you manage to map all the routes too?
    • jpoesen 11 minutes ago
      There's a "sources" button at the bottom left that seems to appear at certain zoom levels.

      > "vlive is an independent app and not an official app of any government, public authority or transport operator. It is not affiliated with, nor does it represent, NMBS/SNCB, De Lijn, STIB-MIVB or TEC. All data comes from their open data; where it matters, the official sources below are authoritative."

  • wvh 25 minutes ago
    Fascinating... I have a thing with maps. Does the information come from a central server that runs some open-source protocol for public transport, or is this gathered from different endpoints in different formats?
  • embedding-shape 43 minutes ago
    Soon we'll be needing a live map of all the live maps in the world.
  • oschvr 38 minutes ago
    Wow very useful thank you !
  • digitalsurgeonz 17 minutes ago
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