Gone are the days when people were unaware of the trains running across the countries. Now with the help of Google maps and android phones one can track the snaky movement of trains running across the country.
Every android phone has a specific Gmail id. With the help of this id one can search the landmarks like hotels, restaurants, and business places defined in Google latitude. If you want to track a specific train running in India then you have to create special Gmail id e.g. IR120354@gmail.com. Now as the train passes through the railway track, it will indicate all the stations as it go through that station on the track. The advantage of this application is that once the place is defined as the station it is used for all the trains running on the same track.
If you are traveling in AC compartment and are not aware of station on the journey, you won’t have to get from the train every now and then to check the station. This information can also be available to friends on Google Network. If any friend wants to get the information, his friend request must be accepted by the user logged in e.g. IR120354@gmail.com.
However this only aids in one trip of train. While return trip, train may have another number. Since android phone is given one id it may not help to track the same train. So the situation demands two android phones.
To sort this problem Indian
Railway has launched the SIMRAN project. Yet will require 100 crore’s
investment and maintenance cost.
