/ice-tracker

Records information from "inflight" information system in DB ICE trains (publicly available).

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ICE data tracker

Records information from "inflight" information system in DB ICE trains (publicly available). This information includes:

  • current speed
  • current time
  • current position (longitude, latitude)
  • connection status to internet

amongst even more. This is what the original application looks like on a phone:

ICE Portal

This program requests the data in a given frequency (default: every 5 seconds) and both shows information on the terminal and records it in a .csv file.

Getting the source

$ go get github.com/kiesel/ice-tracker

Running

In $GOPATH/src/github.com/kiesel/ice-tracker:

$ go run track.go

About

This program was written while riding the ICE train to Paris (and back) on 2016-10-09 & -11 in order to attend at DotGo EU 2016