London Bus 1.0, Routes Covered

14 Responses to London Bus 1.0, Routes Covered

1. deerfold says:

   May 11, 2009 at 9:11 am

   Are you aiming to include all routes? A quick glance shows 327 and X68 missing.
2. deerfold says:

   May 11, 2009 at 9:15 am

   You’re missing 35 day routes from those contracted by London Buses. Let me know if you want the list.
3. Malcolm Barclay says:

   May 11, 2009 at 9:28 am

   Sure send me your list. I certainly do aim to cover the entire main day & night time network, but it’s always a case of constructing complete data. I am working on a number of updates for the routes that will fill in the missing ones and increase the accuracy of the others.

   This is day one. And I am by no means finished.
4. Zerocrop says:

   May 11, 2009 at 10:46 am

   This will be a fantastic app once it is fully accurate. It seems 98% there already. But I just used the locate function to check the bus stop outside my house and the N19 is missing
5. deerfold says:

   May 11, 2009 at 11:26 am

   Missing day routes (apologies – only 32, not 35):

   44
   66
   82
   85
   327
   347
   359
   375
   382
   383
   389
   399
   415
   434
   470
   492
   498
   507
   521
   549
   A10
   E7
   H3
   R5
   R6
   R8
   R9
   U1
   W16
   W3
   W7
   X68

   I’ll look into night routes later.
6. deerfold says:

   May 11, 2009 at 11:28 am

   Are you thinking of putting school routes open to the general public and mobility routes on?

   Good luck with this…
7. Zerocrop says:

   May 11, 2009 at 3:46 pm

   I’ve just spotted a mistake in one of my routes. The 30.

   On London Bus it finshes Euston Square > Warren Street > UCH > Angel

   It actually goes Euston Square > UCH > Warren Street > then along Marylebone Road, Baker Street Oxford Street and finishes at Marble Arch. Angel is earlier in the route.
8. Malcolm Barclay says:

   May 11, 2009 at 3:59 pm

   Yes this is one of the fix ups on the way :-]
9. Malcolm Barclay says:

   May 11, 2009 at 4:02 pm

   deerfold, I wish I had the data but sadly not at this stage. I 100% focused on getting the main day & night routes as good as they possibly can be.
10. deerfold says:

    May 11, 2009 at 6:16 pm

    I think I’ve missed where you’re getting the data from? I’m just worried about how much work it’ll be for you doing updates to the network.
11. deerfold says:

    May 11, 2009 at 6:41 pm

    Oh, and there’s 603, which is technically not a school route as it runs Mon-Fri schooldays and non-schooldays, but only 3 times each way near the peaks.
12. Malcolm Barclay says:

    May 11, 2009 at 7:33 pm

    I have had to do some shameful programming (mostly php scripting) to massage data from about three different sources. It’s something that’ll be constantly refined, I am also entertaining the idea of having users input this directly into the app for feedback and propagation to all (with some sanity checks in between). Particularly for obtaining the latitude & longitude of various stops.

    I have been working on refining the routes and adding the missing ones. I now have 599 routes; I can assure everyone the route themselves are correct (well as correct as TfL publish them). But for the time being will only run one direction, subsequent directions will be another release. I don’t have the data for every single stop that the routes through, about 6% is missing on some of the newer routes, the main ones are sweet.

    Some routes run in multiple directions (e.g 305), which makes it even more confusing! I have some ideas on how to elegantly handle this UI wise in a future release.

    …more soon.
13. deerfold says:

    May 12, 2009 at 1:18 pm

    B12′s a fun one – the route it takes depends on the time of day (alternate directions round the Joydens Wood loop). Not quite sure what the problem with the 305 is.

    Apologies – you seem to have found a bus geek.
14. Malcolm Barclay says:

    May 12, 2009 at 2:19 pm

    No apologies needed, transport geeks are most welcome. Since Deluxe I have meet some real transport fanatics, people who even update geographic coordinates for fun! There are a number of services & information that just wouldn’t be possible without them.