# World Train Map

13 Hacker News commenters recommended World Train Map and 6 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 2 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** Curated free map of passenger train routes worldwide, praised for its design and ambition. Critics say coverage is incomplete, with missing routes in Europe, China and parts of North America.

## Why people recommend it

- Praised as amazing, intriguing, great work (2 comments): "Amazing! Thanks for building this =)" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49281165)) "amazed and intrigued. great work." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49252509))
- Beautiful, user-friendly, fun to use (2 comments): "a user friendly, working toy" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49254550)) "beautiful website, congrats" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49254453))

## What people warn about

- Many routes missing in Europe (2 comments): "It's definitely not complete, quite a few reasonably common passenger routes in Europe I know are missing." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49251629)) "Košice-Prešov link is missing" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49253676))
- Concerns about AI-generated map quality (3 comments): "The map is ok, but mostly I'm interested in the number of map apps people are cranking out with AI." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49252726)) "AI lets people produce things that look authoritative, but are crap" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49252675)) "a highly inaccurate map is worse than not having such a "map"." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49253236))

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## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "World Train Map", https://hackerapproved.com/p/world-train-map/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).