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OCInfo Mobile 1.0 Beta 2

Published
by
Rémi
on March 30, 2008
in OCInfo Mobile
. 3 Comments

Yes, Beta 2 is already out! It includes a few bug fixes and new features:

  • Top 10 requests of all time displayed on front page.
  • You can now add a two-letter code at the end of the URL if you want to get a specific route. For example, to get 2 Bayshore at Rideau Centre (stop 3009), add #ba at the end: m.ocinfo.ca/3009/2#ba

Go ahead and try it out! Go to m.ocinfo.ca or use the form on your right.

OCInfo Mobile 1.0 Beta 1

Published
by
Rémi
on March 26, 2008
in OCInfo Mobile
. 0 Comments

A new preview of the OCInfo Mobile service, formerly known as 560 Mobile, has been released today for everyone to try, along with a new Web site to host it, OCInfo.

Several bugs have been fixed from the Alpha version made public last year. To list a few:

  • Routes in both directions, where applicable (for example 2 Blair and 2 Westboro), are now displayed properly.
  • Stops with only one route will now display that route.
  • Results are now cached for one day, which makes subsequent accesses to the same stop-route combinations faster.
  • French language now available. (See link below.)
  • O-Train schedules now available by typing “0″ (zero) as the route number.

Try it out (version française) with your computer or your mobile, and feel free to report any bugs!

“560 Mobile” featured on CBC

Published
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Rémi
on March 26, 2008
in Uncategorized
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560 Mobile, now renamed OCInfo Mobile, was featured on CBC Radio’s Ottawa Morning. Here’s a excerpt from the December 27, 2007 article:

Ottawa transit users can get schedules for their nearest bus stop e-mailed to them or formatted for their cellphone web browsers — but they won’t find those services on the OC Transpo website.

Instead, those services have been developed and made available by OC Transpo riders, such as Rémi Plourde, Michael Smith and Dave O’Neill.

Read the full article.