Keep an eye on your Bus during Xmas

Hi,

I said we would finish it before Xmas … well we are mostly there.

Still a few styling issues, but the functionality is there.

Have a go if you are interested????

The link is here … http://arcgis.ecan.govt.nz/Beta/Metro/wheresmybus.aspx

We will be changing the design and adding to the functionality.

So if it breaks etc, don’t be too surprised.

Original dev design …

Future design …

6 Responses to “Keep an eye on your Bus during Xmas”


  1. 1 Roy January 12, 2009 at 3:40 pm

    Good to see someone working on this. However, right now:

    The page cannot be displayed
    Explanation: The Web server connection was closed.

    * Error Code 64: Host not available
    * Background: The connection to the Web server was lost.

  2. 3 Sarah January 27, 2009 at 2:46 pm

    this is a great app, very useful! Have noticed a few bugs, the main one is the bus arrival times don’t seem to refresh every five seconds like they claim to – the only way I could get the arrival times to refresh was to reload the enitre page.

    • 4 ecanmaps January 31, 2009 at 9:41 pm

      Hi,

      thanks for the feedback.

      I’ve discovered an IE 6.0 bug that the javascript does go and refresh the bus times but IE 6.0 has a cache problem that just caches the first response.

      I’ve found a solution around the IE 6.0 problem.

      You just need to do a hard refresh on your browser to get the new client side code.

      usually CTRL + F5 or Refresh + CTRL on the browser

      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bypass_your_cache

  3. 5 MG July 13, 2009 at 8:02 pm

    OK with Internet Explorer and Google Chrome but struggles with Safari and Firefox.

    Cheers!

    Great effort.

  4. 6 Daryn Hanright October 9, 2009 at 3:21 pm

    This looks awesome!! Is there any way to get a KML/KMZ file that a user could import into google maps under “My Maps”? Would that function in the same way as this excellent tool?

    The real value of this would be if people could also use it on their own google maps – would allow things like iphones etc access I reckon!


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