Where is the Crossrail tunnel - right now? Mapped

Transport is great for data - especially rail transport ( witness our database of rail passengers by train station ). And with huge boring machines (called things like 'Ada' and 'Phyllis') tearing their way across subterranean London, sensor data can give us a new perspective on the 21km operation. The map itself allows you to see where each boring machine is now, either by zooming in or entering your postcode - and will then tell you how far it's gone and how much further it has to go. The soil itself is being removed to Wallasea Island where it will help create a new wetlands bigger than the City of London . NEW! Buy our book • Facts are Sacred: the power of data (on Kindle) More open data Data journalism and data visualisations from the Guardian World government data • Search the world's government data with our gateway Development and aid data • Search the world's global development data with our gateway Can you do something with this data? • Flickr Please post your visualisations and mash-ups on our Flickr group • Contact us at [email protected] • Get the A-Z of data • More at the Datastore directory • Follow us on Twitter • Like us on Facebook