Welcome to the #LongestTrainEU #CrossBorderRail record breaking thread!

[tml@mementomori.social]

@sebwilken @jon Male reindeer can be pretty impressive size, too. Wouldn’t want to run into a such in a small car. At the very least those antlers will spoil the surface finish, I think.

This one is in middle Sweden, though. Maybe they are smaller in Lapland.

[tkalvas@mastodontti.fi]

@jon I don't really know why it's this way. In the south you just get regular warning signs with moose or deer, maybe it's to make the difference clear (and the fact that the danger doesn't stop after a couple of km.)

Reindeer, being half tame behave quite differently than moose. They might decide to not be scared of a car at all.

[jon@gruene.social]

@sebwilken That looks like an elk. But the reindeer one looks like a stag.

[bellinghman@wandering.shop]

@jon Some trains (for me, often TGVs) just block GPS - the signal just doesn't make it through whatever coating there is on their windows

There's being so far north that the number of satellites above the horizon is low, which means fewer with strong signals, which means train infrastructure may leave too few for your phone to do the 3D geometric calculations properly

And then there's WiFi assisted GPS, which sees your train WiFi and goes "Oh, that network ID? Forget satellites, Stockholm!"

[zorun@social.atypique.net]

@jon Can we republish pictures from your trip on https://www.bonjourtchoutchou.fr/ and @BonjourTchoutchou ? (with attribution / license)

It's a hobby website made by train nerds for train nerds.

In any case, have a nice trip!

[jon@gruene.social]

@bellinghman Yes, but I even went between the carriages where normally you overcome that window problem and even that didn't work

Anyway it is back working now. Let's see how it goes tomorrow!

[jon@gruene.social]

@zorun @BonjourTchoutchou Absolutely! And any pics I have on Flickr too.

[jon@gruene.social]

So that was Day 1 #LongestTrainEU #CrossBorderRail

Here's today's summary video from Kemi

https://peertube.netzbegruenung.de/w/62Qy6xoKZXMUecPKx31a6s

[jon@gruene.social]

And finally a few photos from the day

[petes_bread_eqn_xls@mastodo.neoliber.al]

@jon oh god, AI is coming for the trains!

[matt_jarvin@eliitin-some.fi]

@petes_bread_eqn_xls @jon

No, that's vr technology from a long ago

[samy@eupolicy.social]

@petes_bread_eqn_xls @jon
That was my first thought, too! Was this thing designed by AI?

[jon@gruene.social]

@matt_jarvin @petes_bread_eqn_xls I agree it is not AI as it's old, but what's the story behind it?

[nheg@mamutovo.cz]

@jon A Czech transportation web bulletin the Zdopravy.cz noticed your #LongestTrainEU : https://zdopravy.cz/6282-km-ze-severu-finska-na-jih-portugalska-zeleznicni-influencer-se-vydal-nejdelsi-moznou-trasu-v-eu-298396/

[saruwine@mementomori.social]

@jon @matt_jarvin @petes_bread_eqn_xls It’s just a joke by the designer Arto Kukkasniemi.

YLE article in Finnish (from 2006)

https://yle.fi/aihe/a/20-24799

[bellinghman@wandering.shop]

@jon Let's hope so

I've been on ships where the phone GPS thought I was in Sweden when actually off the north coast of Norway, because of that assisted GPS thing believing Google Street View regarding network locations

[jon@gruene.social]

@Nheg Yes, this popped up in my RSS feeds I didn't even talk to them - they just took the press release!

[bellinghman@wandering.shop]

@jon FWIW I have an Android app on my phone named GPS Status (ad supported) that displays what satellites are in view. Right now right here, 71 satellites with 45 fixes. Up in Alaska last year, getting far fewer

[jon@gruene.social]

And why there is a 6 finger hand on the train door, thanks to @saruwine - 2006 article https://yle.fi/aihe/a/20-24799

[jon@gruene.social]

@bellinghman Ah that's a handy idea. Will explore tomorrow! Thank you!