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Live London Underground / bus maps taken down by TfL trademark complaint


Back in June 2010, I attended Science Hackday in London. The TfL API with open data had just been announced and I thought it’d be fun to build a live tube map based on the available information of arrival times at future stops.

The TfL API with open data had just been announced and I thought it’d be fun to build a live tube map based on the available information of arrival times at future stops. This was the result, a page showing all the trains on the network in approximately real time, using “a bit of maths and magic” as I put it. The internet isn’t what it was 15 years ago, and I can’t be bothered dealing with large organisations removing any semblance of joy from it.

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