Flightmussy

The world has become a mad place where everyone is trying to escape «permanent underclass». I would love to go back to an another timeline such as the early 2000’s where life was just normal.

Thank you! I think there are many existing competitors already when it comes to maps for finding movie scenes, so none of us are unique I guess.

I try to do my own thing and hope for the best. I rely both on my own principles and standards + Feedback from the community so that it gets quality tested many many many times.

Wikipedia as a data source is open to use for everyone which makes this project even possible. Without Wikipedia, I would have to rely on Ai generated results which is not optimal.

This comment makes me happy!

I like to be creative, but I also like that people actually want to use my stuff. This has never ever happened before I started creating interactive maps.

There are many missing items. The difficulty is to fill the map without spamming it too much.

That is a good idea! I have not focused on that yet honestly so it seems a bit randomised at the moment.

I started with filmed location, but I thought that I personally would love to view locations for video games and anime.

I am glad that you like it! I do not look at other websites before beginning a project, I just work with ideas which I personally find interesting and hope for the best.

Yes! I have created some interactive maps which are in some ways similar to each other.

I like to have some sort of standardised UI to make the map as useful as possible. If I like features from one of my maps, I will copy that to the other maps wherever it fits. I hope this works:)

You can also just write it mostly anywhere on the internet! I just scope up all the feedback and try to get it verified so that I can implement it to the site;)

Thanks! I have thought about how to put "compare photos of the location with the on-screen version" on the map. Have not just found out how yet.

Would love to add that because that would have been so cool!

I have only gotten the link to Wikipedia page for the item, but not the place. That should be possible to put in later where there is a button for item and a button for the destination itself.

Thanks! I also did not know that I have passed Star Wars location with train (Finse) before. I live in Norway so got exited to learn that. Usually nothing happens here.

Thanks! I am aware of this problem because I have not been able to parse the information well enough. Therefore, some might even be in a country level while it is known that the scene happened in a very specific location.

Thanks a lot!

I try to rely mostly on Wikipedia because I do not want this project to be associated with an another AI project. What I am doing with my projects are using Wikipedia information to tell a fun story on my interactive maps. Something like a video game, because I am a gamer myself.

I am considering other databases, although I have to learn more about the licensing conditions. I have experience with using some sort of verification system from an another project of mine.

For now I have been just looking for feedback on this project on forums and scooping them up. Usually it is because I have not been parsing Wikipedia well enough.

To use the website? The website will always be free to use. That is a promise:)

Thanks!

Good question!

I am going to be honest. When I started to create websites, I did that because I wanted to earn money. The job marked has made me a bit too desperate, since AI kinda took away my entry level job which I been studying for 5 years to be able to get.

I am going to answer that this is a leisurely hobby. This project has been very difficult for me to work on. If I did not like this project, I would fully scrap it and just move on to something easier and with a wider audience.

I have been spending so many hours just to fix the route tracing and has made me so frustrated. I guess this is like playing Transport Fever 2 for me, because I have spent many hundreds of hours playing this game before. It is fun for me to see the results on the interactive map, and to see that it actually gets to become a proper rail map.

If I could monetize this somehow I would be happy to do so. I am not going to say no thank you to free money. What I will not do with this project is to put annoying ads or make it subscription based. I want it to be free to use, no annoying sign in and no ads. I hope to make money in an ethical way in the future, that would be so fantastic.

I have an another leisure project "CastleMap" which is becoming quite famous, and I could already have monetized it through ads and do nothing really. However, I just love this project too much to even think about that. I still work my ass off to make it even better. Hence, both Castlemap and World Train Map are non commercial projects.

I hope that I could answer your question:)

Just turn the luxury filter on;)

Hahahaha thanks!

I have the same feeling. There are so many places and things to experience which I want to do. I am not sure what I am doing with my life either.

In a way I have to grow up and become "successful", but at the same time I would rather just sit in a train somewhere in the alps with the craziest view, have a small wine bottle at train table and trying the best ice cream ever in a random North Italian town.

I really admire the train vloggers on Youtube because that seems so cool to do.

I do not know where to even start, there are so many routes that I want to do right now.

Thanks a lot!

Hacker News have a limited amount of comments which I can leave. so will give the link to my twitter: https://x.com/Flightmussy which I want to use as the communication channel besides the email.

I have gotten perhaps a bit too much harsh feedback with this project, since I have posted it on the RailUK Forum and OSM community to give feedback about this project. Until yesterday, the website was called Trainrouter, but I decided to change the url because it was a bad fit for what the website really tried to do.

You should have seen how bad this project was before I posted it on RailUK.

Openrailway is a bit more technical product than World Train Map. The goal of World Train Map is to have a good selection of almost all passenger rail routes around the world, where the user can hover over each route to get a quick story.

The tracing on World Train Map is based on OSM and I am thankful for both their tracings and the community which has corrected this project. Most casual users like me are not interested in signals or the technical stuff about the line, but rather simpler technical details such as speed, average speed and where you can take the route from and to.

Besides OSM is really all rail routes, while World Train Map is only passenger service.

I am aware of that. Lines like Karlovy Vary - Loket or Strakonice - Tabor are missing. I have travel by rail in Czech Republic a bit too much according to my friends lol.

The reason why they are not added yet is because I am working on a verification system. I see that there are many routes in Czech Republic which are not shown either in OBB Scotty. I will see if I can use Ceske Drahy to verify and get at least almost all routes.

Thanks!

I am trying to use a verification system to get the data from, however it is an incomplete system. The idea of the system is the route being traced either by OSM or local operators data and either use OBB Scotty (for European routes) or local operators data to make sure that the route actually exists.

For example this is how I got the data for the route Sarajevo - Ploce.

How this line was checked - Line drawn from 2 OpenStreetMap relations, their own nodes end to end: relation 2674114 (169 km), relation 1646595 (30 km) — 192 km of the route between them - Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 9 m from it - The operator publishes this line's timetable: ŽFBiH red vožnje — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing

I am going to sleep now because it is pretty late in Norway and I can sense that I will have a very long work day tomorrow. It is crazy to see that World Train Map is on the front page. Holy shit!

Please give feedback meanwhile because it helps the site a lot. I want to add both many more routes and have a well functioning verification system. I hope that the map is giving all of you an enjoyable experience.

The last few days I have been working on a new verification system. I hope to be able to add many more routes through this system, so that World Train Map can have high quality routes that are verified.