Hi Michael, As Geoff indicated, iPhone apps for local public transportation depend a lot on the details of location, and even in the U.S., NextBus doesn't serve all areas. Arrival time information and locations are only available if the bus systems in question have been fitted out with this kind of broadcasting information. However, a common solution is to set a route point at the stop before you need to get off. You can find out bus stops in the vicinity either using the free AroundMe app or the Where To? app, which supplies even more information. Both of these are helper applications that can send destinations to Navigon, TomTom, or the default Maps app.
I think that when I tried Where To? and tried to set for a UK location, it also reference the transportdirect.info web site for general route planning, The link to the page for buses is: http://www.transportdirect.info/Web2/JourneyPlanning/FindBusInput.aspx (I did find that somewhat clunky to use and input source and destination, but it's possible to make it work, and I suppose it may be easier if you actually live there.) For London, I know that U.S. apps like HopStop can do route planning for combined public transport means. And there are probably a host of apps and web sites specific to that city. I think there's a general route planning app for the south and east of Britain called Traveline South & East: http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/traveline-south-east/id369553999?mt=8 and there's another by the same developer called "NextBuses" that claims to cover 370,000 buses in England, Scotland, and Wales with information on when your next bus is due: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/nextbuses/id362006676?mt=8 I have no information on the effectiveness or accessibility of these apps -- they just came up in searching. Your best bet is to get information from someone using such apps in your own vicinity. I can only add that in my vicinity, Navigon doesn't pull up bus stops, so I get them from Where To? and save them. There's also an app called Get Off Now! that some VoiceOver users have used. There is both a lite free version and a paid version: • Get Off Now!-Predictive GPS Alarm (Lite) http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/get-off-now!-lite-predictive/id431512003?mt=8 • Get Off Now!-Predictive GPS Alarm ($0.99) http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/get-off-now!-predictive-gps/id415576580?mt=8 HTH to get you started. Cheers, Esther On Sep 5, 2011, at 06:06, Geoff Waaler wrote: > Hi Michael, > > The answer will depend on your location and needs. If I read mail headers > correctly, you posted from London. It does not appear that the nextbus site > works outside North America, but perhaps you can find an equivalent. In > areas served by NextBus, you can open a site in Safari and optionally place > it on your home screen. When launched, it will list all stop names and > predicted arrival times sorted by proximity from your present location. It > won't tell you which corner the stop is on or its offset from the > intersection, but I don't know of any apps that will. If you're looking for > that level of detail you'd need to mark locations using an app such as > Ariadne GPS. > > Since NextBus is likely not an option for you, I would suggest doing an app > store search using your city combined with other search terms such as "public > transit" or "bus". > > Best regards. > Geoff > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: michael weaver > To: mac-access@mac-access.net > Sent: Monday, September 05, 2011 6:19 AM > Subject: bus stop ap for the i-phone > > > does anyone know of an accessible app for the i-phone that > detects bus stops which i could use as an extention to navigon or > whatever you might call it? > i don't appear to find navigon accurate when it comes to bus > stops or it gives me too many messages when i arrive at my stop. <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> or at the public Mail Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/>. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml> The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/>
