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Website Review: Live Tube Map

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This is the continuation from the LiveLondon Bus Map which the developer Matthew Somerville  made. Before he made the bus map, he created a Live Tube Map which shows the London Underground trains in motion on a map. It was made in 2010 using the Google Maps as its maps to show the roads and places of interest but now it uses Open Street Map. It uses the data from TFL’s London Underground departures but it does not show where the train accurately is on the map. It just shows moving from one station to another. The countdown tends to calculate the speeds from one train to another to show how long it actually approaches the station. Information from the Yellow dot When you click on the Yellow dot which is the moving trains, it tells you what line is on, where the train terminates to and how long it approaches the next station. If you move your cursor to the London Underground roundel it tells you the stations and the Tube Lines it serves. Part of the Lines missing from the map. Well ...

Site Review: Live London Bus Map

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Live London Bus Map Live London Bus Map shows the London Bus routes onto an interactive map. It is developed by Matthew Somerville who developed the Live Tube Map in which he originally created.  It uses Open Street Map an open source online map, unlike TFL in which they use Google Maps. But to start off with the map, its default route is 73 so I change it to route 25 for example. Route 25 is one of the heavily used bus routes in the entire London Buses network, it also have a highest Peak Vehicle requirement of 60 buses at day and 28 buses at night because it’s a 24 hour route. The moving red dots indicate that is a bus in motion, It has a small arrow pointing towards their next bus stop. Which you click on the red dot, it reveals the registration of the bus, but it doesn't show its fleet number unlike London Vehicle Finder does. But it’s ideal to know where the buses are but they do not indicate the actual GPS location of the bus so it relies on the next bus feeds. But the in...