{"id":4726,"date":"2013-08-12T21:14:16","date_gmt":"2013-08-12T20:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/myglasseye.net\/news\/?p=4726"},"modified":"2013-08-12T22:29:20","modified_gmt":"2013-08-12T21:29:20","slug":"tube-map-live-tube-tracker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/myglasseye.net\/news\/tube-map-live-tube-tracker\/","title":{"rendered":"Tube Map Live, a cool new app from the Tube Tracker guy"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m a big fan of Andy Drizen’s Tube Tracker<\/a>, one of my three favourite London travel apps I wrote about here<\/a>. It has some very cool features, one being the ability to track particular trains across the network in real-ish time using TfL data.<\/p>\n

Andy’s just released a new app, Tube Map Live (Free)<\/a>, which takes that Tube Tracker feature and applies it to the whole London Underground Map, and it’s pretty damn cool. Take a look:<\/p>\n

\"live<\/p>\n

First launch triggers a quick tour but it’s pretty straightforward: you can zoom in and out with a pinch, turn lines on or off by tapping their name in the scrolling ticker below, and tap on a train to display it’s destination and location. If you’ve got Tube Tracker installed you can jump over there to get more detailed info.<\/p>\n

\"live-tube-map\"<\/p>\n

It’s not quite accurate enough to plan a journey as TfL’s live train data can be patchy in places – I’ve occasionally seen a random train shooting along the line overtaking everyone else, and I’ve not had a look late at night yet but Andy says the data TfL sends often shows ‘ghost trains’ whizzing around – but I can definitely match up trains I hear passing nearby with those on the map. The integration with Tube Tracker is fun (and I do love that yellow-on-dark icon) but it would be cooler still if TT was updated to be able to send train tracking information back to a friend’s Live Tube Map, not just their TT app.<\/p>\n

But I’m nitpicking – it’s a fun wee novelty that’s enjoyable to scroll around and watch, and a good advert for some of the smart features in Tube Tracker, all for the awesome price of Free<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Thanks for reading!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m a big fan of Andy Drizen’s Tube Tracker<\/a>, one of my three favourite London travel apps I wrote about here<\/a>. It has some very cool features, one being the ability to track particular trains across the network in real-ish time using TfL data.<\/p>\n

Andy’s just released a new app, Tube Map Live (Free)<\/a>, which takes that Tube Tracker feature and applies it to the whole London Underground Map, and it’s pretty damn cool. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4727,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[354,353],"tags":[450,426,449,427],"yoast_head":"\nTube Map Live, from the Tube Tracker guy - my glass eye \u2022 words<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Tube Map Live is... a free live tube map app, funnily enough, presented in the same clean style as companion app Tube Tracker. 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