Show HN: Follow London Trains in 3D
https://ride.nexttrain.london/
deck.gl based visualiser of the TFL Api + National Rails to be able to track (with minimal drift) a train along the way in London and to the nearest airports. If you pick one from any platform in https://nexttrain.london basically you can share your train journey along the rails. Build to test Cloudflare workers and their infra along with deck.gl performance that is incredible in my opinion.
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Quick suggestion: When not tracking a train, the mouse wheel should zoom into / out from where the cursor is pointing, rather than the center of the window.
There is a good wiki page on this: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Simple_3D_Buildings
Edit: Is there a Repo to look at and learn from this?
while the 3d buildings render properly, the trains' polygons have a flipped z-order: polygons that are supposed to be layered behind are actually in front.
nevertheless, great website!
It's not the same, but I've tried to create a free browser-based app to track bus lines where I live (Brazil), but I had to pause this project, as each city uses a different way to track their public transportation, and it would be hard to gather all the info in a way to be usable in the whole country.
It's nice to see something similar implemented to track the transportation in another country.
Even with all of its problems, for this moment in time our society is operating effectively enough that humans can engineer interesting, beautiful, culturally rich landscapes (cities) in quite a significant size scale.
Cheers to us, in 2026.
One small thing: clicking between trains causes a jarring jump atleast for me. Felt like if I was going to select a few trains in a row, it might start making me feel disoriented. A smoother eased transition might make it feel a lot less whiplash-y.