Show HN: Follow London Trains in 3D

(ride.nexttrain.london)

46 points | by mgranados 4 days ago

13 comments

  • TheOtherHobbes 54 minutes ago
    Interesting but quite buggy. Example: mouse dragging seems trapped in a fairly small area.
    • mgranados 15 minutes ago
      Ah yeah i tried anchoring to the train with a threshold for panning around i'll try smoothing it. thanks for trying it!
  • hokkos 42 minutes ago
    There seems to be some parallax issues between your trip layer and your 3D Tiles layer, but nice usage of deck.gl.
    • mgranados 11 minutes ago
      thank you! i'll have a look
  • darknavi 57 minutes ago
    I'd love to see a view with all/many trains. In London I was constantly wondering what the criss-cross of underground lines looked like.
    • mgranados 10 minutes ago
      I saw a project like that here in hn recently for all uk trains even. it'd be pretty cool to extend this to support that, busy stations might be visually confusing, thanks for suggestions
  • Leewen 14 minutes ago
    model rough but amazing. i cant do this
  • dmazin 1 hour ago
    It would appear you are missing the High Barnet branch of the Northern line.
    • uukelele 30 minutes ago
      And the Reading branch of the Elizabeth line
      • mgranados 9 minutes ago
        thanks for feedback i'll have a look!
  • sdoering 1 hour ago
    Having just taken the Elisabeth Line to LHR T5 and sitting here, this was fun. Thanks.

    Edit: Is there a Repo to look at and learn from this?

    • mgranados 5 minutes ago
      <3 thanks!! i'll clean it and share here sometime soon
  • ohjeez 56 minutes ago
    This is incredibly cool. I had it open on my desktop for most of the day.
  • fredley 2 hours ago
    Very nice, but the map seems to be in the wrong position vs. the trains/3d elements.
  • kentonv 3 days ago
    This is really cool!

    Quick suggestion: When not tracking a train, the mouse wheel should zoom into / out from where the cursor is pointing, rather than the center of the window.

    • mgranados 2 minutes ago
      thanks! that's a great suggestion will implement
  • Falimonda 1 hour ago
    How do I drive the train? Arrow keys not working :(
    • mgranados 4 minutes ago
      It's just following api data for now. That'd be a real cool feature for backlog!
  • jrrv 1 hour ago
    The planes were a surprise
  • philipwhiuk 2 hours ago
    I'm curious what the 3D model source is - the Gherkin is kinda weird.
  • gowld 1 hour ago
    The train paths are drawn on a 2D layer above the buildings, not at z-index that matches the proper 3-D position. So the paths appear to weave around and over the tops of buildings.