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Transport for London – New responsive website

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Re: Transport for London – New responsive website

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Post by ajanuary »

rahimnathwani wrote: post #9

This site is really nice to use. Does anyone know where it gets data on walking routes? There is a train station near where I used to live. Google Maps correctly identifies it as being 11 mins' away by foot. The TfL site thinks it's 23 mins away by bus, so never includes it in any suggested routes, instead showing my multiple-leg journeys by bus and tube. Is there a place to report errors or 'I found a faster route'?

I don't know about now, but historically I've found TfL uses a slower walking speed than Google Maps.

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Post by hackunit »

idlemind wrote: post #2

Looks fantastic! There is also an API and documentation available at http://api.tfl.gov.uk . Disclaimer: I'm part of the combined TfL and BAE Systems Applied Intelligence team (née Detica) that did the build and architecture, along with the great folks at We Are Experience and Attenda.

Appreciate the namecheck, idlemind. Great team on the project.

(I'm part of we are experience)

Re: Transport for London – New responsive website

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Post by digitalengineer »

vanderZwan wrote: post #6

This is really good. To give an international perspective, this is what I was used to as a Dutch person: http://9292.nl/ I didn't realise how great that website was until I moved to Sweden to study. This is what is available here: http://www.reseplaneraren.skanetrafiken.se/querypage_adv.asp... I've noticed that I used public transport on long distances a lot more when the website was a lot easier to use.

Perhaps the English link of the Dutch good-example site provides a better understanding: http://9292.nl/en# The Sweden site looks like it was made in 1990...

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Post by bananas »

hackunit wrote: post #13
idlemind wrote: post #2

Looks fantastic! There is also an API and documentation available at http://api.tfl.gov.uk . Disclaimer: I'm part of the combined TfL and BAE Systems Applied Intelligence team (née Detica) that did the build and architecture, along with the great folks at We Are Experience and Attenda.

Appreciate the namecheck, idlemind. Great team on the project. (I'm part of we are experience)

Great work both of you - genuinely improving things for us Tfl users is appreciated!

Re: Transport for London – New responsive website

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Post by rahimnathwani »

idlemind wrote: post #10
rahimnathwani wrote: post #9

This site is really nice to use. Does anyone know where it gets data on walking routes? There is a train station near where I used to live. Google Maps correctly identifies it as being 11 mins' away by foot. The TfL site thinks it's 23 mins away by bus, so never includes it in any suggested routes, instead showing my multiple-leg journeys by bus and tube. Is there a place to report errors or 'I found a faster route'?

Can you send me a link to the journey planner results? There is no specific way to contribute improvements to the results, best way for now would be to leave feedback through the form in the title bar of the new website. Edit: You also might get some mileage out of setting your walking speed to "Fast" and selecting "Routes with fewest changes"

Choosing 'fast walking' and 'routes with fewest changes' sort of worked, but it still shows a walking route which doesn't use the pedestrian-only bridge:

http://www.tfl.gov.uk/plan-a-journey/results?IsAsync=true&Jp...

Re: Transport for London – New responsive website

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Post by Osmium »

idlemind wrote: post #2

Looks fantastic! There is also an API and documentation available at http://api.tfl.gov.uk . Disclaimer: I'm part of the combined TfL and BAE Systems Applied Intelligence team (née Detica) that did the build and architecture, along with the great folks at We Are Experience and Attenda.

Is there an API for Oyster balances yet? (or planned?) I ask as someone slightly concerned by popular apps which seem to rely on you giving some third party your TFL login for them to scrape it for you...

Very happy to see that TFL have done as much as they have though. Lovely to see :)

Re: Transport for London – New responsive website

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Post by Tosh108 »

vanderZwan wrote: post #6

This is really good. To give an international perspective, this is what I was used to as a Dutch person: http://9292.nl/ I didn't realise how great that website was until I moved to Sweden to study. This is what is available here: http://www.reseplaneraren.skanetrafiken.se/querypage_adv.asp... I've noticed that I used public transport on long distances a lot more when the website was a lot easier to use.

http://m.9292.nl/ The mobile version works well, no big images.
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