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  • fredley 3 hours

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

  • adecoster 2 minutes

    A bit buggy in term of tiles jonctions

  • Leewen 1 hours

    model rough but amazing. i cant do this

  • ohjeez 1 hours

    This is incredibly cool. I had it open on my desktop for most of the day.

  • TheOtherHobbes 1 hours

    Interesting but quite buggy. Example: mouse dragging seems trapped in a fairly small area.

    mgranados 1 hours

    Ah yeah i tried anchoring to the train with a threshold for panning around i'll try smoothing it. thanks for trying it!

  • kentonv 3 days

    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 56 minutes

    thanks! that's a great suggestion will implement

  • philipwhiuk 2 hours

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

    0l 2 hours

    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

  • hokkos 1 hours

    There seems to be some parallax issues between your trip layer and your 3D Tiles layer, but nice usage of deck.gl.

    mgranados 1 hours

    thank you! i'll have a look

    taylorius 47 minutes

    Is it not that certain train lines are somewhat deep underground? The Piccadilly line swims with respect to the ground in the centre of town, when it is below ground. Further out where lines are at the surface the routes stick to the ground correctly.

  • sdoering 2 hours

    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 59 minutes

    <3 thanks!! i'll clean it and share here sometime soon

  • jrrv 2 hours

    The planes were a surprise

    mgranados 57 minutes

    hehe thanks!

  • Falimonda 1 hours

    How do I drive the train? Arrow keys not working :(

    mgranados 57 minutes

    It's just following api data for now. That'd be a real cool feature for backlog!

  • darknavi 1 hours

    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 1 hours

    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

  • gowld 2 hours

    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.

    mgranados 52 minutes

    I meant to make it feel like the tube ones felt "underground" by some metres i'll have a look thanks

  • dmazin 2 hours

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

    uukelele 1 hours

    And the Reading branch of the Elizabeth line

    mgranados 1 hours

    thanks for feedback i'll have a look!