Example feeds

• Tube this weekend
• Station locations
• Findaride
• Live traffic cameras

Tube this weekend

We’re rebuilding the entire Tube network - from tracks and trains to signals and stations. While we’re doing this work, passengers may experience some delays to their normal journey times.

The 'Tube this weekend' feed contains information on planned line and station closures for the coming weekend. This allows people to plan their journeys and avoid disruption.

It also has details of planned works affecting station access - such as those involving lifts and escalators.

Some ideas...

• Add the feed to your staff intranet. It will increase traffic and allow you to promote other travel related schemes targeted at your employees – car pooling and cycle to work schemes, for example.
• If your company is organising weekend events it allows your visitors to plan ahead and take alternative travel routes.

Notes

Tube lines should be displayed using the correct colours as explained in the feed user guide.

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Station locations

Our 'station location' feed is a Geo-coded KML feed of most London Underground, DLR and London Overground stations.

It has station facilities and access information for each station. All stations are marked with the famous TfL roundel.

Some ideas...

• Add your business location to the map so customers can find you
• Display places of interest on the map – this helps people find the nearest Tube station

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Findaride

Minicabs and other private hire journeys must be booked through a licensed operator. Otherwise, the journey is illegal and could be dangerous.

The findaride KML feed contains details of licensed London minicab and other private hire operators. It is based on the same database as the award-winning 'Cabwise' service.

The feed contains a date and time stamp which should be displayed when publishing the information, and includes:

• Contact details
• Operating hours
• Areas covered
• Availability of wheelchair-accessible vehicles/offices
• Number of vehicles
• Payment options

The Findaride feed is not a complete list of licensed operators. For a complete list, please refer to TfL's Private Hire Licence Checker.

Some ideas...

• Pub or club owners could add the Findaride feed to their website to help customers get home safely.

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Live traffic cameras

Our 'live traffic camera' feed gives you a bird's eye view of what's happening on London's streets. It provides images from 177 cameras across the Capital, providing an up-to-date view of traffic at key locations.

All images are TfLbranded, telling users they’re from an official source. The images are date and time-stamped, and refreshed every three minutes - sometimes even more often.

All images have a location description. Individual feeds may be interrupted if there’s a system fault or if we’re servicing a camera.

Note that images are not captured when a camera is in use for managing traffic, when a camera is being maintained or in the event of a camera or system fault.

Some ideas...

• If you operate a freight or delivery service, you may like to keep an eye on traffic conditions and tell your drivers to avoid congested areas
• Radio stations could add a live camera feed to a traffic news page
• Organisations with staff intranets could add the traffic camera feed so people can plan their journeys home

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The example feeds on this page are not updated and are for demonstration purposes only. You need to register to gain access to the live feeds.

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