October 3 2008

Translink iPhone site launches

Translink and my friends at Handi Mobility have taken the wraps off of a new iPhone-optimized Translink site. Check it out if you have an iPhone (or other mobile WebKit browser) and use transit in Vancouver. It looks good and feels good! Now all I need is the Maps application on the iPhone to give me trip plans, and my life will be complete.1

  1. There is a mobile Google Transit website, but it doesn’t work in Vancouver. It “appears to be outside our current coverage area”, even though the desktop version works fine. Grr. []

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4 Comments

  1. Tom Brown
    Oct 4 2008
    3:38 pm

    Try output=html

  2. Allen Pike
    Oct 4 2008
    4:31 pm

    Thanks for the tip Tom! Doing that lets you get desktop directions that don’t redirect to the Maps app or to the non-working Mobile site. The map doesn’t load, but the directions are usable.

  3. John Boxall
    Oct 5 2008
    8:00 pm

    Scrape scrape scrape scrape.

    Looks like we’ve got to scrape Google now : )

  4. Allen Pike
    Oct 5 2008
    10:55 pm

    Maybe they have an API for that?

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