[gps-talkusers] Re: google maps and transportation methods
- From: Jeff Kenyon <jkenyon7@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2014 01:16:42 -0500
Right, I was just going on and talking about routes and going from city to city
that way but using public transportation to travel across so your state or the
country.
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> On Jan 24, 2014, at 1:04 AM, Ilkka Pirttimaa <ilkka.pirttimaa@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
> 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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