iPhone Translink App

Simon604

Non iPhone users eat your heart out



http://parveenkaler.com/2008/11/14/iphone-translink-app/comment-page-1/#comment-8358

Simon604

After trying to use this app for a month or so, I've found it to be slow, unintuintive and ultimately useless.

Now that Google Maps has built in transit schedules, it's made my life a lot easier.

illicit

Simon said:

Non iPhone users eat your heart out

Simon;53046 said:

After trying to use this app for a month or so, I've found it to be slow, unintuintive and ultimately useless.

i laugh (=

Guest1

Simon;53046 said:

After trying to use this app for a month or so, I've found it to be slow, unintuintive and ultimately useless.

Now that Google Maps has built in transit schedules, it's made my life a lot easier.

Gosh I need this. I get lost like there's no tomorrow.

Student0667

summerheaven;53051 said:

Gosh I need this. I get lost like there's no tomorrow.

Didn't you get a free Translink Metro Vancouver Transportation Map with your U-Pass? Mine came in the mail along with my Fall 08 U-Pass. It is essentially the same thing as the iPhone application that Simon posted, but it is on a piece of paper nicely folded up to the size of a credit card. I am not sure, but there should be some in the SFSS office because that's where my orientation leader got one for me back in Fall 2006.

There is also a phone number you can call to get an approximate bus schedule.

Simon said:

Now that Google Maps has built in transit schedules, it's made my life a lot easier.

Yeah, the Google Map Translink schedule is very useful. I use this all the time when I need to go to some obscure place via Translink. I just type in the address of my destination, my current location, and they will plot out the whole trip for me.

illicit

Student0667;53056 said:

Didn't you get a free Translink Metro Vancouver Transportation Map with your U-Pass? It is essentially the same thing, but it is on a piece of paper nicely folded up to the size of a credit card. There is also a phone number you can call to get an approximate bus schedule.

those maps harm the environment, plus, more expensive to reproduce and distribute than a piece of software.

Kevin M.

the concept of the translink app was cool but google maps did the same thing much better...and it's accurate. it will tell me all my transfers, stops, bus times exactly so i know how to get where im going from where i am, which the iphone knows thanks to gps...

Guest1

Student0667;53056 said:

Didn't you get a free Translink Metro Vancouver Transportation Map with your U-Pass? Mine came in the mail along with my Fall 08 U-Pass. It is essentially the same thing as the iPhone application that Simon posted, but it is on a piece of paper nicely folded up to the size of a credit card. I am not sure, but there should be some in the SFSS office because that's where my orientation leader got one for me back in Fall 2006.

There is also a phone number you can call to get an approximate bus schedule.

I have mad skills in getting lost. No map in existence can prevent this.

Student0667

summerheaven;53085 said:

I have mad skills in getting lost. No map in existence can prevent this.

I wouldn't be too worried about buses. After all, all you have to remember is which bus to take and where to get off. However, I am concerned that your "mad skill" in getting lost will give you some trouble once you get your licence and start driving on your own.

Even though I distrust GPS, you should probably invest in one after you get your L this summer.

Well, let's hope that your navigation skill will improve as you drive more often. In the mean time, try using Google Map more often to get a feel of the program.

bufli

im kinda against GPSs. they distract drivers from actually driving, ive seen so many people dicking about with their GPSs instead of focusing on traffic around them.
as for up to date info, if u got money to spend u can get a more advanced GPS that can pull traffic data
and for maps being out of date.. ya that can happen too...
other downsides of GPSs, which no1 on this forum will have, is that they track all the places uve been (and routes), now if u have an obsessive gf u aint gonna get vage for a long long time after she sees u stooped@ a residential location in slurry :P

i think its very hard (if not physically impossible) to get lost in any city

Student0667

bufli;53091 said:

i think its very hard (if not physically impossible) to get lost in any city

Weren't you or your family from Europe?

I think the sort of lost that we often encounter is when we take the wrong turn or missed an exit. There was this one time I drove to White Rock instead of Tsawwassen because I missed EXIT 28. However, I grabbed my map and plotted a route back to Tsawwassen. As long as you got a map and you know where you are, you should be fine.

bufli

^ yes i am from europe
in 2006 i drove across Europe to Italy
the trip was 1,216 km and all i used was an old outdated map and common sense. i got us to our hotel in about 11hours
i said I since one person couldn't read a map worth her life and the other couldn't be bothered

once in Italy (Verona to be exact) i got us around @ a decent rate
the only issue i had was that most streets are restricted from driving without permits/ residents only or 1way streets that weren't indicated on the map i had
once we ditched the car, it was ezy as pie
driving in these cities in europe is problematic cuz of permit restrictions not cuz of the streets themselves
so if im on train/foot ill manage just fine
Venice
Skiathos
Athens
Katerini
Budapest
Constanta
to name a few of the bigger cities i havent got lost in :P