Where's my Train ?
At ProjectX, we’ve been wanting to show-case our abilities in building cool map applications. Here’s a little R&D project that was kicked off as potential contender of Mash-up challenge. We’ve built Wellington Trains as a flash based “Train Simulation” showing the estimated location of a train in real time. The position of the train is estimated based on the train time-table from the Metlink site. The project was inspired by Swiss Trains. We’ve taken it to the next level by having proper animated trains and it runs against the current time. We’re thinking of adding buses to the app in due time. We’ve used Google and Virutal Earth maps in the demo.
Its fun to watch around 8:30am and 5pm as the number of trains on the network increase.
A big thanks to Metlink for giving us permission to build the demo.
Here’s some pictures:
Johnsonville, Hutt and Melling trains on a Google Map.
A couple of trains stopping at the station in Red on a Virtual Earth Aerial map.
A couple of trains stopping at the station in Red on a Virtual Earth Hybridmap.
Here’s a train coming into Ava Station
