Rover - All Your SF Transit Options In One Place

Post by watterssn » Mon, Feb 11, 2013, 11:05 PM UTC

kalvin wrote: post #9

I've been using Rover on iPhone for a few months and it's great. Prior to Rover the best option was using both Google Maps (great routing, but no real-time schedules for SF transit) and Routesy/Nextmuni (real-time schedules, but no routing)-- two apps for every bus trip. Muni buses are more often late than not, so Rover is solving a real problem with just the walking+transit piece. It also has InstantCab/Uber/Sidecar…

Post by lubujackson » Mon, Feb 11, 2013, 11:22 PM UTC

guywithabike wrote: post #17

One problem: It thinks that it doesn't take any time to walk from, say, Powell station to a street-level bus, so it gives you connections that you can't possibly make. This is the same problem that almost all transit apps have, unfortunately. Edit: Also, it seems to give me really bizarre suggestions. Right now, for a trip to Alamo Square Park from downtown SF, it suggests that I take Bart from Montgomery to Powell (…

Post by Garthex » Mon, Feb 11, 2013, 11:52 PM UTC

jaredsohn wrote: post #22

davidd8 wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hey Garthex! Thanks for checking out our app - Rover does support BART (with real-time arrival data), try routing to SFO for example. Let me know if that doesn't work for you - we'll investigate if something is not looking right!

I've generally had success (and love the app due to the user experience and integrated nextbus functionality) but I was getting a message "Rover only works for SF MUNI right now." a few times for a particular route between Berkeley and SF. So at the very least, that text should get changed. Also, the headline seems wrong since it doesn't seem to support some transit options such as AC Transit. Although, likely the sp…

Post by davidd8 » Tue, Feb 12, 2013, 12:05 AM UTC

wasd wrote: post #19

http://roversf.com/ is down.

Post by potatolicious » Tue, Feb 12, 2013, 12:38 AM UTC

lubujackson wrote: post #23

guywithabike wrote: post #17

One problem: It thinks that it doesn't take any time to walk from, say, Powell station to a street-level bus, so it gives you connections that you can't possibly make. This is the same problem that almost all transit apps have, unfortunately. Edit: Also, it seems to give me really bizarre suggestions. Right now, for a trip to Alamo Square Park from downtown SF, it suggests that I take Bart from Montgomery to Powell (…

I don't see why this should be so hard. They could use Google Maps to do the walking path and then just apply a default walking speed (or even let you set yours) to calculate walking time.