[gps-talkusers] Re: google maps and transportation methods
- From: Ilkka Pirttimaa <ilkka.pirttimaa@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2014 08:04:59 +0200
I'm glad yo like it. When you are travelling in a bus or train, try to get
seat near window and have gps on a window side. BSq will notice you are in
a moving vehicle and automatically change it's mode to give little bit
different information. You will not hear meters or feet when reaching
intersection but shorter messages when bus is making a turn or passing
intersection. Your future position is estimated and places are fetched from
that estimated place beforehand. When city changes, you will hear that,
it's handy when you travel on a train. If you have favourited your target
stop, you can set alert distance for it (for example 300 meters): You will
then hear special alert sound when reaching your target, even you are not
tracking it.
...but I think you asked also for how to do planning of public
transportation route. For that, there is no global standards for API's
among public transportation producers. My take developing BlindSquare is
trying to work together with local app developers that can take care of
building app on that city. I have started from Finland, where BSq shows
button "Public Transport" and you can plan a route that includes walking +
trip with bus/metro/train/tram/flight, with information about time tables.
So, if you know that in your city there already is an app that can do
public transport route planning, you can suggest its developer to contact
dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (it's me) so we can work together to build a bridge
between our apps.
On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 3:51 AM, Jeff Kenyon <jkenyon7@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
> HI everyone, I have been playing around with Blindsquare and google
> maps, and have been impressed with the information it gives, even as far as
> walking for a great distance, but what I am surprised about is if say one
> wants to use public transportation to get from one city to another that
> there isn't some kind of option asking what they would like to use be it a
> bus or a train or whatever and providing directions for the given method?
>
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