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Android apps that do bus/transit route planning for Dublin/Galway/Cork?

  • 09-08-2011 7:33pm
    #1
    jamespb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1 ✭


    We use Google maps transit directions all the time when we travel, but it looks like no Irish transit agencies provide them data. Noooooooo!!!

    Are there any apps that do route planning? Or websites that work well from the android browser? I tried hittheroad.ie, but it's nonfunctional.

    The apps I found in the marketplace all look like they're more for daily commuters who know what routes they want (kind of like our OneBusAway here in Seattle; great for when you know what route you're going on, not useful otherwise).


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  • #2
    BrianE
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16 ✭BrianE


    I am have similar trouble finding a route planner (want to travel from dublin to cork using bus and rail)

    cie.ie is useless as it only gives you timetables and you have to work it out yourself :(


  • #3
    Mrs OBumble
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,295 ✭✭✭✭Mrs OBumble


    jamespb wrote: »
    ... looks like no Irish transit agencies provide them data. Noooooooo!!!

    You hit the nail on the head: there is no central database of public transport services in the Republic of Ireland, so there is nothing that any application, mobile or otherwise, can read from.

    As best as I can work out, the state-owned bus companies are unwilling to co-operate with privately-owned companies in most cases, and will do anything they can to avoid feeding a database like this. This means there is a strong lobby opposing any legal requriement to provide data to feed a database.

    The state owned companies have issues press-releases saying that they are working on databases of their own with real-time service info (whensmybus.ie is an early version). Apparently there are apps and a SMS service coming soon - but this won't have all companies in it.

    If you want to plan anywhere to Galway, I can offer you an old-fashioned web-page listing the companies. A quick glance at it will show you why any system involving only the state-owned companies ( just Bus Éireann in this case) is leaving out a lot of data.

    Oh .. and Google Tranzit started with the idea that local authorities are responsible for public transport, so these were the only bodies they took data from. In Ireland, local councils etc have no responsibility for public transport (they don't even choose where the bus stops go!). I understand that Google have now changed their policy and will take data from companies, but it may be that some companies don't know this.


  • #4
    bolshevik
    Closed Accounts Posts: 40 ✭bolshevik


    Apparently this is coming, but slowly...
    http://www.dttas.ie/pressRelease.aspx?Id=374


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