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Berlin Transit Pulse

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

Creators

Martin Kreichgauer @kreichgauer

Maximilian Schneider @mschneider

Stefan Wehrmeyer @stefanw