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Our lovely local bus company has slowly been entering the 21st century by rolling out a bus tracking service. This has become increasingly common around the rest of the country - basically it means that each stop has a sign up telling you when the next few buses will arrive at it.
The problem is that they've only got the signs up on a couple of main thoroughfares through the city - Leith Walk/North Bridge (going North South) and Princes Street out to Dalry (going East West) - and even then only in the more central parts.
However, and this is the cool part, the information is actually available for the entire city - and as of today you can get it over either the web or on your phone. Each bus stop has a number on it, so you can simply pop to the WAP site, enter the number, and be told when the next set of buses is going to arrive.
And not just handy for knowing how long to stand about at the bus stop (or whether to get on the bus that's arriving now or wait two minutes for a better one) - two bus routes converge just past my flat, and I never know which stop to go to. Now I'll know which one is worth heading for - or indeed, whether I've got time to check livejournal one more time before heading out :->
The site's at www.mybustracker.co.uk if you want to take a look. And it actually has a nice bit of functionality behind it. It uses a Google Maps mashup to allow you to find your local bus stop - where every stop in the city is a red dot, and you can click on it to see its unique number and a link to its times. It's actually quite impressive.
The problem is that they've only got the signs up on a couple of main thoroughfares through the city - Leith Walk/North Bridge (going North South) and Princes Street out to Dalry (going East West) - and even then only in the more central parts.
However, and this is the cool part, the information is actually available for the entire city - and as of today you can get it over either the web or on your phone. Each bus stop has a number on it, so you can simply pop to the WAP site, enter the number, and be told when the next set of buses is going to arrive.
And not just handy for knowing how long to stand about at the bus stop (or whether to get on the bus that's arriving now or wait two minutes for a better one) - two bus routes converge just past my flat, and I never know which stop to go to. Now I'll know which one is worth heading for - or indeed, whether I've got time to check livejournal one more time before heading out :->
The site's at www.mybustracker.co.uk if you want to take a look. And it actually has a nice bit of functionality behind it. It uses a Google Maps mashup to allow you to find your local bus stop - where every stop in the city is a red dot, and you can click on it to see its unique number and a link to its times. It's actually quite impressive.
