Next Project Request ... TrainTrax?

54901 - Jim · October 02, 2009, 02:55:32 PM

AirNav:

For your next project, I respectfully request "TrainTrax"! You've got my aviation hobby covered well ... now my railroad hobby could use some expert assistance. Here's a link to get you started.

http://www.atcsmon.com/

Thanks! :)

Jim

Allocator · October 02, 2009, 05:06:42 PM

Unfortunately, it's not possible to track trains using this system in the UK, as they don't have it fitted as far as I know.

tarbat · October 02, 2009, 06:00:08 PM

There's always TrainPlotter - http://www.coaa.co.uk/trainplotter.htm

Allocator · October 02, 2009, 06:55:46 PM

Still doesn't work for UK trains though :-(

TrainPlotter decodes, displays and plots radio data transmissions between Trains and Controllers coded in accordance with UIC (INTERNATIONAL UNION OF RAILWAYS) protocol UIC 751-3 in the 460 MHz band, as used in Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Netherlands and Spain.

AirNav Development · October 02, 2009, 10:36:57 PM

To be direct we have in our mind a Satellite Tracking application (we've always had this idea). Anyway so much work with RadarBox + ShipTrax + FlightWatch that it will be virtually impossible to develop it during the next year.

mt007 · October 02, 2009, 10:44:06 PM

Airnav,
Satellite Tracking application is a good idea.
i agree with that, excellent.
Regards

Johnn · October 02, 2009, 10:45:32 PM

Quote from: AirNav Development on October 02, 2009, 10:36:57 PM
To be direct we have in our mind a Satellite Tracking application (we've always had this idea). Anyway so much work with RadarBox + ShipTrax + FlightWatch that it will be virtually impossible to develop it during the next year.

Hi There,
Please can you tell me what 'flight watch' is about?
Thanks

AirNav Development · October 02, 2009, 11:56:23 PM

It is an integrated software that shows flights from:
- FAA ASDI (FAA Radar System);
- RadarBox
- RadarBox Network
- ACARS
- HFDL
- Flight Plans

It can virtually track all flights in the world. Lots of work to finish it yet.

DazrahT · October 03, 2009, 02:21:30 AM

Hmm, interesting idea, but sadly "TrainTrax" will never happen in the UK

Being a Signaller myself on the railway for Network Rail, the only way I can see how to track trains would be via the developing GSM-R system, to which access to this information by third-parties would never be allowed/happen.

FlightChaser · October 03, 2009, 02:36:09 AM

Airnav. Concentrate on what you do best. Air Flight tracking :) Traintrax and ShipTrax are separate issues that should be raised elsewhere!

AirNav Development · October 03, 2009, 02:38:36 AM

ShipTrax is not a separate issue. It will be the most successful ship tracking application available. :-)

Next Project Request ... TrainTrax?

FlightChaser