YourStop - New Integrated Bus App for the West Midlands

[harringtonp]

Covers many of the smaller operators too as shown in the list below. More information on yourstop can be found in the General Discussion forum at

http://wmbusphotos.com/forum/index.php?topic=5373.0

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Aimee's
Aintree Coachlines
Arriva Midlands
Ashbourne Community Transport
Astons Coaches
Banga Buses
Bennetts Travel
Boultons of Shropshire
Caradoc Coaches
Catteralls Coaches
Celtic Travel
Claribel Coaches
Clearway of Catshill
Cofton Coaches & Euro Liners
Community Transport Calderdale Ltd
Coniston Coaches
Corporate Express
D & G Coach & Bus
DRM Coaches
Diamond Bus
Discount Travel Solutions
Dudley's Coaches
Evergreen Coaches Ltd
Fastline Travel
Finesse Travel
First Potteries
First Worcestershire
Flexibus
George Young's Coaches
Grosvenor Coaches
Hatton Hidson Minor Munro
Hedgehog Community Bus
Henshaw's Coaches
High Peak
Hinckley Bus
Hollands Coaches
Hollywood Travel
Johnson's Excelbus
Kevs Cars and Coaches
LMS Travel
Lakeside Coaches
LandFlight
Let's Go
Lilbourne Community Bus
Lloyds Coaches
Longmynd Travel
Lugg Valley Travel
M & J Travel
Midland Classic
Minsterley
N N Cresswell
National Express Coventry
National Express West Midlands
Newent Shuttle
Notts and Derby
Oswestry Community Action (Qube)
Owens Motors Ltd
Pat's Coaches
R & B Travel
R.K.Travel
Regional Transport
Roberts Coaches
Sargeants Brothers
Scraggs Taxis and Coaches
Select Bus Services
Shipston Link
Stagecoach Midlands
Stagecoach South Wales
Stagecoach West
Stanton's of Stoke
Tanat Valley Coaches
Thandi Transport Ltd
The Green Bus Service
Travel De Courcey
Trent Barton
Villager Minibus Services
Walsall Community Transport
Wolverhampton University Bus
Wrekin Rider
Wyre Forest Dial a Ride
Yarranton Brothers
Yeomans Travel

[harringtonp]

An update came into yourstop.info last night and all the west midlands metro data is gone (80 stops).

Can anyone throw any light on this ?

FYI, there were more updates over the weekend and the west midlands metro stops came back. And now they seem to have live predictions as indicated by the beating circle next to the departure time

There seem to be quite a few structural changes in the stop/route data and they are pushing out a lot of updates. I view this as a positive BTW

[harringtonp]

Enhancements have been made around how stops in stations are represented, Stourbridge is used as an example and it can be read about at

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/yourstop-gtfs-station-representation-paul-harrington

Other improvements around stop list retention can be read up on at:

https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=842425729466898&id=485305331845608

Next up in the pipeline (as a result of a suggestion by a user on here) is to place an icon on the maps which will take you back to your current position.

[harringtonp]

YourStop uses responsive design techniques so that it renders differently on mobiles and desktops. This concept has been extended so that on maximized windows on displays of width 1920px or more, it now uses the available space more effectively as shown below. The last trip viewed is now also highlighted

[harringtonp]

Following on from user suggestions, the trip layout has been changed so that the trip diagram is the default view. The diagram, map and detail are now shown in separate panes with buttons used to switch between them. This eliminates scrolling and gives faster access to the desired view. Font sizes and the amount of rounding on box corners has also been standardized.

[harringtonp]

Maps can now be kept centered around your current location.

https://www.facebook.com/485305331845608/photos/a.485361865173288/880660942310043/?type=1&theater

[Stu]

Maps can now be kept centered around your current location.

https://www.facebook.com/485305331845608/photos/a.485361865173288/880660942310043/?type=1&theater

Thanks for that, this was one thing I found about your app that it wasn't as 'intuitive' to use as the NX or NWM apps, with regard to finding stops on the map.

[harringtonp]

Have encountered a lot of hurdles in the promotion of YourStop , it's all discussed at

https://www.intelligenttransport.com/transport-articles/91386/despite-open-data-has-the-travel-app-ecosystem-become-closed-off/

[harringtonp]

Back doing a bit of work on this. Safari bug affecting search fixed and minor improvements.

https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1234448300264637&id=485305331845608&__tn__=-R