Cities
- Aberdeen Live now Aircraft, harbour shipping and the NorthLink ferries, coaches, trains, bus stops and timetables, power cuts, river levels and forecourt fuel prices.
- Edinburgh Not yet Next on the list. The map is built to take a new city as a set of boundaries and feeds rather than as a rewrite, so this is a question of which sources cover the Lothians — not of starting again.
About
A city generates an enormous amount of live public information and gives its residents almost no way to see it together. You can find out that the power is off, or that the Dee is high, or that a road is shut, or that diesel is 8p cheaper a mile away — but only by visiting four different websites, and only if you already knew to look.
The premise here is that the interesting thing is the overview: not any one feed, but all of them at once, on the geography you already have in your head. A power cut next to a road closure next to a river gauge reads differently from any of them alone.
It is built for residents rather than for enthusiasts or for operators. That shapes the decisions: no login, no app to install, no configuration, and it has to be fast on a phone on mobile data. It is not a commercial product and it is not an official service.
Everything it draws comes from somebody else's feed, and the map says who, on a page that also shows how long ago each one last answered. Where a value is inferred rather than observed — train positions between stations, most obviously — it says so on the map itself, not only in the small print.
Sources
Each city's map carries its own live sources page: every feed behind it, who publishes it, under what licence, and when it last updated. It is generated from the running system rather than written by hand, so it cannot quietly go out of date.
Before you rely on it
This is a best-effort view of other people's data. It goes out of date, it goes wrong, and sometimes a feed stops answering and the map keeps showing the last thing it said. None of it is safety information.