- BDZ is Balgarski Darzhavni Zheleznitsi, Bulgaria's national railway.
- Well done! The UI feels incredibly polished. Without really digging into the detail at I'm on mobile, at a glance you've done a great job.
- - The tool-tip feels wrong in how it covers up the highlighted route. Perhaps it should go at the left top of the screen.
- When opening the page the user should be prompted to pick the language and theme. Then you can collapse it in the interface under a settings icon. (put the icon to the left of the close button)
- Push "Train dashboard" all the way to the top. (next to the settings and close icons)
- Make the close button smaller.
- "Search trains" should sit as close to the top as possible.
- Lines around forms and buttons are visible when you look at them directly but are to faint for peripheral vision.
- Nice job! I also made a similar website for hungarian trains: https://kozlekedesiklub.hu/vonatinfo/ (Since the state railway MÁV shut off its own one, as it visualized the delays too well :D) Keep up the good work.
by throwaway89201
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- A similar (unofficial) map, but for The Netherlands: https://spoorkaart.mwnn.nl/
- Really polished UI. The real-time train positions are a nice touch.
One UX issue on desktop: the train detail panel being fixed to the bottom feels awkward. Consider making it a floating panel or sidebar that doesn't block the map.
Also the arrival/departure times showing "hundreds of minutes" is confusing. Anything over 90 minutes should probably display as hours:minutes instead.
Great work overall though. I've seen plenty of official government transit sites that look worse than this.
by executive
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- - trains all look to be arriving/departing in hundreds of minutes when you click a random station, even near active trains. Assuming a bug. Regardless, consider changing this to hour/minute display if over 60|90m
- train icon looks like standard metro icon but is easily mistaken for a bus
- train detail panel fixed to bottom is awkward on desktop breakpoints. consider floating or integrating to a single sidebar
- consider having main sidebar fixed to bottom for mobile breakpoints
- Congrats, it is heartwarming seeing the young doing their own things. :)
PS: Only BG comprehensible joke - be careful with showing BDZ looking bad, they might hide the data MVR style.
by woodruffw
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- Nice job! I took the train from Sofia to Plovdiv a few months ago, and this would have been a great resource to have.
(I wish someone would make a similar thing for Amtrak, which has a route/progress tracker that only marginally works IME.)
- Great resource, many thanks for sharing. I've bookmarked it and will keep an eye on its development. Wish you good luck with it!
(Not a Bulgarian, but live in your country for several years and really felt in love with it!)
by markus_zhang
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- Thanks. I wish we had a map with freight trains too. I have always been a railroad fan and my favourite trains are those long freight trains. I also love watching the operations of marshalling stations too!
by NooneAtAll3
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- no zoom buttons :(
by nailherwithrust
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