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Re:Live map of London Underground Trains by anselm_eickhoff on Saturday April 06, 2013 @07:07PM (#5505402)
Improvement suggestion: Interpolate between the transmitted positions for a smoother animation. It's really difficult for me to detect movement directions at something like 3Hz.
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Re:Live map of London Underground Trains by spuz on Saturday April 06, 2013 @07:08PM (#5505408)
That is exactly what is happening. The positions of the trains are only available only every minute or so. I expect the animation speed is limited to 3fps due to performance issues.
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Re:Live map of London Underground Trains by dracos on Saturday April 06, 2013 @08:21PM (#5505589)
The code is on github ;) I only really have time to keep it running and e.g. move it to OSM, but pull requests always welcome.
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Re:Live map of London Underground Trains by ImprovedSilence on Saturday April 06, 2013 @07:37PM (#5505480)
Yeah, but at the very least, maybe some sort of color coding to suggest direction the train is moving.
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