Website of the month: metrobits.org

[jpatokal]

Welcome to the Artificial Owl, a site dedicated to provide a selection of the most fascinating abandoned man-made creations.

http://www.artificialowl.net
http://www.artificialowl.net/2009/03...ma-desert.html

[Ahoerstemeier]

I haven't checked the old posts - did they feature Bangkok's stonehenge aka Hopewell already?

[waerth]

be carefull when opening this artificial owl website it is horror on your system resources .... computer froze, cpu at 100% my 1gb of RAM wasn't enough and it started swapping on my HD ... normally cpu runs in the 20-30% when browsin and approx 700 mb of RAM is in use ...

Waerth

[Yappofloyd]

Alerted to this interesting Tube related site via The Guardian Weekly, animals on the underground. Not about creatures that lurk within the bowels of the London Tube but a website of various animal shilouettes made from using various Tube lines.

Nothing special but worth a look. Apparently, the elephant design was the first created;
http://www.animalsontheunderground.com/the_animals.html

[Yappofloyd]

For those that hate being at the mercy of a taxi when you fly into a new city and are looking for info on various transport options, the website www.ihatetaxis.com may be for you. You can search by IATA code or place name but most major cities around the world appear to be listed.

The BKK page is a good example, http://www.ihatetaxis.com/airport/BKK

[Yappofloyd]

Not a new website here, Google Maps, but a new innovation in Denmark which may not be too far away in other countries;

Danish timetables integrated with Google Maps 26 May 2010 IRG

DENMARK: Travellers in Denmark can now use the Google Maps website to plan multi-modal public transport trips. Users type an address or click on the start and end points of their journey, and Google Transit provides details of train and bus times and connections along with a map of the suggested route.

Information on 1·5 million departure times and 22 000 stops was supplied by Rejseplanen, a national travel information company owned by a consortium of Danish transport operators. This was converted into Google's format by Swiss IT firm Netcetera ready for the launch on May 25. 'I am delighted that we are the first place in Europe which can present an entire country's rail and bus information on Google Maps', said, DSB S-tog Managing Director Gert Frost.

[Yappofloyd]

An 80 gigapixel, 360 panoramic view of London available on the site 360cities.net. Many cities, places and even transport modes are available so check out your favourite;http://www.360cities.net

You can even tour the interior of a TGV, 2nd class or an SBB Panoramawagen amongst many others. Many train stations included on the site.

[Yappofloyd]

I do like the metrobits.org site which has a great metro database and some interesting facts about metros.

Good to see the steady growths of metros worldwide in the last 30 yrs;

[forumadmin]

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[Yappofloyd]

This site http://www.steveprentice.net/tube/TfLSillyMaps/ has some interesting maps of The Tube. here are a few:

The Real Underground


Distances between stations


London physical map with underground marked