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Show HN: Follow London Trains in 3D ride.nexttrain.london

deck.gl based visualiser of the TFL Api + National Rails to be able to track (with minimal drift) a train along the way in London and to the nearest airports. If you pick one from any platform in https://nexttrain.london basically you can share your train journey along the rails. Build to test Cloudflare workers and their infra along with deck.gl performance that is incredible in my opinion.


dmazin4 minutes ago

It would appear you are missing the High Barnet branch of the Northern line.

fredley38 minutes ago

Very nice, but the map seems to be in the wrong position vs. the trains/3d elements.

kentonv3 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.

jrrv14 minutes ago

The planes were a surprise

philipwhiuk27 minutes ago

I'm curious what the 3D model source is - the Gherkin is kinda weird.

0l3 minutes ago

OpenStreetMap - seems to be done with concentric circles, e.g. https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/1365317072 and a dome on top

There is a good wiki page on this: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Simple_3D_Buildings

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