Romanian Trains Live on Google Maps

The Romanian railroad network is around 5,000 km in length, with almost 1,500 stations. Around 1,300 trains travel on the network every day making roughly 20,000 stops in total per day.

Using the Romanian Railways Network Simulator you can view it all live and in real-time. Romanian Railways Network Simulator uses the timetables of the Romanian railways to create a simulated real-time Google Map of the Romanian rail network. Using the map you can view the network's trains moving around Romania live on a Google Map.

You can create your own simulated vehicle simulator with the help of the code from Swisstrains, available from GitHub.

Transfagarasan Highway in Street View

Street View Drives

Earlier today Google Sightseeing found a beautiful Street View of the Transfagarasan Highway in Romania. I couldn't resist the temptation to create a little animation of a drive down this amazingly twisty road.

The link to this latest Street View animation can be found at the bottom of Street View Drives. Essentially the animation just flicks through consecutive still images from Google Street View.

You can use the provided buttons to change the direction of the camera and to speed up the animation.

You can create something very similar yourself with Directions Map. Directions Map uses Google Maps to help users create an embedable driving directions map for their website or blog. This Google Maps based widget allows you to create an animated Street View tour. If you just add a starting point and a destination to Directions Map you can view the route entirely in Street View.

Here's a link to Directions Map that I created for the Transfagarasan Highway.

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Dracula's Castle Now on Street View

Street View had been released in Romania. Imagery is available in Bucharest, Brasov, Constanta, Arad, Oradea, Cluj-Napoca and there is patchy coverage elsewhere.

Mark of Street View Funny has contacted me to say that the Street View imagery in Tokyo has also been updated. The imagery there used to be of poor quality. It is now in higher resolution.


Romanian Parliament


Dracula's (Bran) Castle


Another View of Bran Castle


Arad City Hall


Dormition of the Theotokos Cathedral


Shibuya Crossing, Tokyo

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