Real Time Trains in Google Maps

The portal swisstrains.ch is trying to provide real time train poistions on the internet. It is planned to record the locations of the trains via GPS and visualize the location on Google Maps.

Currently the site is in ALPHA-phase, we keep on developing. The current view is based on the Swiss traintimetable, and does not yet show the actual GPS-positions of the trains. But, as Swiss trains are almost always on time, most of the time the position is accurate.

train

In near Future this is a good tool especially if these can be visualized on your mobile phone. I think this is very usefull for Location Based Services (LBS) and Location Based Decision Support (LBDS).

[via www.swisstrains.ch]

Written and submitted from Home, using my 802.11g WiFi network.

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2 Responses to Real Time Trains in Google Maps

  1. You can set your watch by the Swiss trains. And, I’d feel safe eating off of their scrupulously clean brightly-colored Lego-like interiors.

  2. Pingback: geofumadas » Blog Archive » Trenes en tiempo real via GPS

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