R-Line App featured on New Raleigh blog

The New Raleigh blog was kind enough to mention the R-Line app in a story this week. Check out their blog post.

R-Line App Updates

What's New?

• Directional bus markers
• New stop markers

What's fixed?

• Missing bus location data
• Bus marker not centered over location
• Moved ad to top to avoid zoom buttons occasionally overlapping ad.
• Maintains map state (zoom, etc) when rotating device.
  

Building on the R-Line App

I've added two new features to the R-Line app. First, you can now select between Map, Map + Traffic, and Satellite map modes. I've also added a pop-up legend to help with identifying map markers. Touching the screen dismisses the legend.

Both features are accessible via the pop-up options menu by pressing the phone 'menu' button.

R-Line App

I just published an application that displays real-time status of Raleigh, NC's downtown buses. Currently, Raleigh's monitoring is limited the R-Line route.

The two buses show up as black dots. Red markers are bus stops. The blue line is the primary route, and the red lines show the evening (after 6:30PM) modified routes.

The app was fun to create. It leverages web services, Google's Map APIs, and Quattro's advertisement APIs. Sorry about the ads, but I couldn't help myself to try it out. They should at least be occasionally targeted to the RDU market.

Data updates every 5 seconds, although the bus data is usually only updated from the buses every 30 seconds.

Future enhancements I hope to include click-able markers to display the stop name, bus name, etc.

Make sure you've upgraded to version 1.16 to ensure you continue to receive bus location updates.