A real-time visualization of public transport traffic in Berlin. Audibilized into a multi-track audio piece that changes with the traffic flow. Created at Music Hack Day Berlin 2011.
Technology used:
- HTML scraping because there is no API
- Distributed crawlers in node.js to prevent IP bans
- Google maps with custom themes
- Websockets for realtime updates
- HTML Canvas visuals
- HTML Audio sounds
- Mapnificient
Martin Kreichgauer @kreichgauer
Maximilian Schneider @mschneider
Stefan Wehrmeyer @stefanw