Dublin bus app - Improvements

Twoandahalfmen

How do you think this app can improve. At the moment I think it's brilliant. But for journey planner they should give a street view option to see exactly where your going. Maybe also a map I real time where you look at your phone and see exactly where the bus is so you now exactly where to get off:

Aard

I downloaded the DB app for Android yesterday. It wouldn't let me put in the bus stop number... so completely useless for the one thing I wanted. Back to the NTA Journey Planner app for me.

Tbh, the best way any of the public transport apps can improve is to amalgamate then all into one single app. A one-stop shop for public transport. I use the real-time info for specific stops on the DB website a lot -- it'd be dead handy if I could do this through the NTA journey planner.

bk

Aard wrote: »

Tbh, the best way any of the public transport apps can improve is to amalgamate then all into one single app. A one-stop shop for public transport. I use the real-time info for specific stops on the DB website a lot -- it'd be dead handy if I could do this through the NTA journey planner.

Basically you are talking about Google Transit in Google Maps.

Really the NTA should have made all this information available in the Goggle Maps standard by now. Pretty much every other major city in the world is already on it.

pclive

fare calculations between stops would be useful

ongarite

Aard wrote: »

I downloaded the DB app for Android yesterday. It wouldn't let me put in the bus stop number... so completely useless for the one thing I wanted. Back to the NTA Journey Planner app for me.

Tbh, the best way any of the public transport apps can improve is to amalgamate then all into one single app. A one-stop shop for public transport. I use the real-time info for specific stops on the DB website a lot -- it'd be dead handy if I could do this through the NTA journey planner.

Download Next Bus Dublin. Its miles better than the official Dublin Bus app.
You can search by stop number and it has Google Maps stop location and navigation built in.

lil5

Dublin Bus Android has received an update as per DB twitter - Ver. 1.4 now

Requires new install though (better make list of your favourite stops beforehand).

devnull

Why did they simply publish a new app on the Play Store rather than updating the old one? It means that nobody is going to get any notification that a new version is out as they just abandoned the old one and published an almost identical one.

No doubt because the old one had bad reviews, and by adding it as a new app you get rid of such things

coylemj

I have a HTC Desire which is always whinging about low memory so I only use Next Bus Dublin, my main issue with the official DB app is that when you want to do a search by stop number, it insists on first downloading a list of every bus stop in Dublin - completely crazy. That means that if I walk up to a stop that's not in my favourites and want to query the next few buses, I have to wait for the phone to download a heap of useless data before I can type in the stop number.

Next Bus Dublin also allows you to filter out routes for your favourite stops, this is very useful for busy stops just outside the city centre where multiple routes meet at the same stops in places like Dorset St., Leeson St. and UCD.

LeinsterDub

Should be a report Real time issues function. Phantom buses that don't show for example