Live map of public transport in Belgium

embedding-shape

Soon we'll be needing a live map of all the live maps in the world.

oschvr

Wow very useful thank you !

wvh

Fascinating... I have a thing with maps. Does the information come from a central server that runs some open-source protocol for public transport, or is this gathered from different endpoints in different formats?

jeffjeffersen

This is well made, would love to have this in my own country as I can never trust the actual timers on the bus stops. How do you get access to the data? Is it a public government API? How did you manage to map all the routes too?

neals

I just figured out that on Mallorca, the busses are shown like that on Google Maps. Which to me was mind blowing. I had never seen it, it's so convenient.

jpoesen

Great companion to https://irail.be , a minimalist counterpart to this site, also based on open data.

wouterjanl

Awesome! Looking at the metro stop near me here in Brussels, the trains seemed stuck for a while at the station. Not impossible this was just real :) Great way to admire the density and connectivity of our public transport!!

Hacker_Yogi

Really nice! The place names are a little hard to read especially in dark mode, other than that great job! Thanks for sharing!

palavrov

Would be perfect post end of January for next FOSDEM.

gworf

Similar real time traffic map for Switzerland < https://maps.trafimage.ch/ch.sbb.netzkarte?baselayers=ch.sbb... >

OvervCW

Similar map for the Netherlands: http://ovzoeker.nl/

f6v

I've first seen this in Moscow around 2018 (in Google Maps) and then in Ivano-Frankovsk in 2021 (some local custom app). I think such live maps are the best use of public funds one could imagine.

ramon156

In the netherlands we have 9292 which imo is the most mature implementation.

Betelbuddy

For Deutsche Bahn it will be just a photo....

smrtzo

feel like its computed from the time table and not live or am I mistaken?

niepiekm

See https://zbiorkom.live/cities for a live public transport in several cities in Poland.

luplex

same thing with global data (but of course not full coverage everywhere): https://travic.app

yummybrainz

Pittsburgh! https://truetime.rideprt.org/map

mci-1

Author here! Thanks for posting the app! Two notes on what you are looking at: Not every vehicle is a live position. STIB-MIVB and TEC publish vehicle positions and those are shown as received. De Lijn and NMBS/SNCB do not, so their vehicles are computed from the timetable and corrected with the delays they do publish (GTFS-RT). Each marker is tagged live, computed with delay, or computed, and the computed ones are drawn dimmer. All data is open data. The four operators publish through one federal portal (data.belgianmobility.io) under CC BY 4.0: GTFS for timetables and route geometry, GTFS-RT for delays, alerts and positions where available. NMBS ships no route geometry, so train paths are routed over Infrabel's open track network. This is not specific to Belgium. Nearly every country publishes public-transport open data in the same formats, and I was able to locate feeds for most European countries. A map like this can be built for almost any of them! Happy to answer questions on the data or the simulation :)

ostacke

This thread is full of people linking similar projects for different locations. The next step must be to combine it all to a global live map. Useful for... something, I'm sure.