Real-time locations of public transport vehicles

Description

The file https://transport.tallinn.ee/gps.txt contains real-time vehicle positions (as displayed on https://transport.tallinn.ee/#tallinna-linn/map) The fields in gps.txt file are transport type (1- trolleybus, 2-bus, 3-tram, 7-night bus), line number, latitude in degrees multiplied by 1000000, longitude in degrees multiplied by 1000000, speed in km/h (empty if unavailable), heading in degrees (999 - unavailable), vehicle number, vehicle type (Z indicates low ground vehicles) The gps.txt file is usually updated every 5 seconds. The latitude and longitude coordinates are in the WGS 84 system (as used in Google Maps or OpenStreetMap). For example the values 24743200,59438000 indicate center of Tallinn: https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=14/59.438000/24.743200 The heading (direction of movement or bearing) value is the angle in degrees between North and vehicle's movement vector. If the value is 0, the vehicle is moving in the North direction, value 90 is East, value 180 is South, value 270 is West.

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Name Format Description Link
0 https://transport.tallinn.ee/gps.txt

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