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Re:Operating Systems, Transit and Cultural Influences by tuukkah on Wednesday December 06, 2023 @05:48PM (#38550558)
I don't think the API does what you think. The realtime data just does not exist for "all trains across the European continent".
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Re:Operating Systems, Transit and Cultural Influences by aredox on Wednesday December 06, 2023 @06:19PM (#38550825)
These websites do not exist, then

https://opendata.stackexchange.com/questions/9547/is-there-a...

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Re:Operating Systems, Transit and Cultural Influences by tuukkah on Thursday December 07, 2023 @03:17AM (#38554105)
Lists and maps exist, but that doesn't mean they cover every country and train.

Also, GTFS is schedule data, not realtime data. When you click a train on such a service's map, it may or may not make it clear whether the shown location is based on the interpolation of some schedule data, whether the interpolation has been adjusted by some updated data (cancellations, delays), or whether it's actually based on realtime location data.

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