Live map of public transport in Belgium (openbaarvervoerbelgie.be)
26 pointsby coinfusedan hour ago11 comments
palavrov 5 minutes ago
Would be perfect post end of January for next FOSDEM.
wouterjanl 8 minutes ago
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 7 minutes ago
Really nice! The place names are a little hard to read especially in dark mode, other than that great job! Thanks for sharing!
jpoesen 9 minutes ago
Great companion to https://irail.be, a minimalist counterpart to this site, also based on open data.
neals 10 minutes ago
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.
jeffjeffersen 17 minutes ago
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?
jpoesen 10 minutes ago
There's a "sources" button at the bottom left that seems to appear at certain zoom levels.
> "vlive is an independent app and not an official app of any government, public authority or transport operator. It is not affiliated with, nor does it represent, NMBS/SNCB, De Lijn, STIB-MIVB or TEC. All data comes from their open data; where it matters, the official sources below are authoritative."
wvh 24 minutes ago
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?
embedding-shape 43 minutes ago
Soon we'll be needing a live map of all the live maps in the world.
oschvr 38 minutes ago
Wow very useful thank you !