I suspect the occasional bugs are from the source data eg XP2016 has been shown at Casino NSW since last night (now 11.31 am WED NSW time) yet the XPT from Casino to Sydney was shown last night at different times making suitable progress around Coffs. Similar with a couple of the NR locos with the same unit number shown at Acacia Ridge and south of Grafton yesterday at the same time. These are the only bugs I have detected so far. Not sure if XP2016 is broken down and left behind and if so then the XPT was making very good progress without the extra power unit.

EDIT; still there 2pm NSW time. the symbol has a smiley face before the digits.

I suspect the occasional bugs are from the source data eg XP2016 has been shown at Casino NSW since last night (now 11.31 am WED NSW time) yet the XPT from Casino to Sydney was shown last night at different times making suitable progress around Coffs. Similar with a couple of the NR locos with the same unit number shown at Acacia Ridge and south of Grafton yesterday at the same time. These are the only bugs I have detected so far. Not sure if XP2016 is broken down and left behind and if so then the XPT was making very good progress without the extra power unit.

EDIT; still there 2pm NSW time. the symbol has a smiley face before the digits.

So "5" seems to apply to anywhere on the Broken Hill line beyond Crystal Brook.

EDIT; still there 2pm NSW time. the symbol has a smiley face before the digits.

6:24pm NSW time Wednesday smiley face XP2016 is located about 30kmwest of Kyogle. Previous location was in Sth Casino so it moved around.   http://s311.photobucket.com/user/petanoz/media/Rail%20assorted/XP%202016%20Bonalbo_zpst18twmel.jpg.html

Interesting. How would a train to Peterborough have anything other than a "5".  It's not on a branch, south of Broken Hill, it's ON the Broken Hill line.

Moot point I imagine. What purpose would a train to Peterborough serve?

Perhaps I am not navigating the site correctly, but I think it needs the facility to search for a specific train or loco, as well as showing the time that a location of a train was last updated.

Perhaps I am not navigating the site correctly, but I think it needs the facility to search for a specific train or loco...

...as well as showing the time that a location of a train was last updated.

...as well as showing the time that a location of a train was last updated.

A couple of options....

Would it be possible to suppress the user locations optionally, since they do tend to dominate large urban areas viewed at a small scale?

Since so many trains operate with two units with radios working, would it be possible to optionally suppress the "circled 2" and only initiate the circled numbers with 3 or more units? My logic is that even if the number of the trailing unit appears, the type of locomotive provides information on the train type at a glance not obtainable from the circled number. This is particularly true for XPTs, Endeavours, 81 class (usually on grain or Limestone on the South, at least) and NR class (steel or intermodal).

...as well as showing the time that a location of a train was last updated.

Except it seems to calculate that time using the difference between the reported time in Eastern Daylight Time (perhaps the server timezone) and the time according to the viewing computer's timezone.  In my case I'm in Central Daylight Time and it displays that the train will be at the location in 29 minutes time.  For example the train through Blackwood this morning at 0724 displayed that would be at Blackwood in 29 minutes (07:53:ss AM).  All that I've looked show this way (except one was only 28 minutes out).

The above is trivial and low or non-existant in priority.  I've really enjoyed the past couple of days using the facility to track trains between SA and Vic.

Richard.

Yep, completely forgot about timezones. Erm, I'll see what I can do about that.

Yep, completely forgot about timezones. Erm, I'll see what I can do about that.

Righto - that is hopefully fixed now. Radar will attempt to detect your timezone from your browser's settings (these are in turn provided by the operating system), and compensate accordingly. It now also shows the timezone abbreviation (e.g. AEDT) next to the marker's timestamp.

In the short time that the Radar has been in use we've managed to exhaust the 50k map tile views allowed under Mapbox's free pricing tier - and the next tier up starts at $500 USD a month! So yeah, I switched map tile providers, in case you were all wondering why it suddenly looked different.

The mapping change  is also providing far more detail on the rail lines and yards etc. which is really good.

Interestingly the previous mapping worked well on my iPad.