Railway Spotting Site

SandTEngineer

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Railway Spotting Site

« on: February 19, 2019, 09:24:59 »

This popped up elsewhere. Useful for trainspotters and railway photographers out there: http://www.trainspots.co.uk/index.php


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CyclingSid

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Re: Railway Spotting Site

« Reply #1 on: February 19, 2019, 16:39:41 »

Another site hit by Google price increases, that will need to find an alternative source. Have Bing maps also upped their rates?
I also use https://zoom.earth/ but possibly not quite the same thing.


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bobm

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Re: Railway Spotting Site

« Reply #2 on: February 19, 2019, 22:45:29 »

It is the first site I have found that explains the changes at Google. Others just soldier on with the broken maps.


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grahame

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Re: Railway Spotting Site

« Reply #3 on: February 20, 2019, 00:07:12 »

Quote from: bobm on February 19, 2019, 22:45:29

It is the first site I have found that explains the changes at Google. Others just soldier on with the broken maps.

The danger of relying on data feeds ... but then you "have to" at times. No maps on the Coffee Shop but we do rely on rail industry data feeds. We *could* plot onto real maps (and I have some test code using Google which is below their charging threshold) but then we risk a dependency which makes us captive to changes in their pricing model - not quite "blackmail" because they threaten nothing illegal. Just like the .eu domain registry I was writing about to 'Frequent Posters" a short while back.


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CyclingSid

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Re: Railway Spotting Site

« Reply #4 on: February 20, 2019, 10:59:10 »

Ordnance Survey have an API of free data. There again your experience of other government "departments" might cool any enthusiasm!


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