[iRail] My 2 cents ideas to improve the API

[Pieter Colpaert]

Thanks Christophe! These are very nice ideas and tips to implement in
the API! From 10 of September on I will spend some days working on the
API.

For now I think the first thing we need to do is talk with other
countries' API developers to come up with 1 standard API.

Pieter

On Fri, 2010-08-06 at 11:47 +0200, Christophe Versieux wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> As you have understood, our idea is to create something huge and
> international. I think we are on a really good way to achieve this
> goal. Still a lot of work to provide, but the basis are there.
> 
> Pieter and Yeri made a great work by creating a functionnal API used
> by 120 people everyday.
> The Android community is growing fast using my application:
> http://img.skitch.com/20100806-rfhubxndba5b4x5j2st529wkyd.jpg : on
> this graph, you can see the number of search hitting 100 per day since
> a few weeks. This is the Google analytics of my application.
> 
> I can give access to anybody who want to have a look.
> 
> I have also a lot of ideas concerning improvement that we can make ( I
> also give the way to get all these informations for belgian website )
> and add to the API
> 
> Pieter, Yeri, I also suggest an "how to?" and can tell you that's
> really easy to achieve this.
> If any question, please ask, all these features are working pretty
> well within my application and adding this to the API should be really
> easy compared to what has already been done.
> I will give you the Java code if needed.
> 
> 1) All stops and delay of one particular train:
> 
> Picture: http://img.skitch.com/20100806-nu7ey7i1m2axw61qcu9xx6spfs.jpg
> 
> How to?: "http://www.railtime.be/mobile/SearchTrain.aspx?l="+lan
> +"&s=1&tid="+tID+"&da=D&p=2";
> tID is the identification of the train: IC2008 -> use 2008
> 
> Informations: 
>       * Grey symbol at the left: Where is the train in real time,
>         canceled stops, extra stops
>       * Station Name
>       * Delay
> 
> 2) Next departures in a particular station:
> 
> Picture: http://img.skitch.com/20100806-85cgpqbrp8ni2jiqxfun37qaf.jpg
> 
> How to?: "http://www.railtime.be/mobile/SearchStation.aspx?l="+lan
> +"&s=1&sid="+int_gare_id+"&tr="+int_heure+":"+int_minute
> +"-60"+"&da=D&p=2";
> The Gare_id is provided in a list that I can give to anybody.
> 
> Informations: 
>       * in Blue: the gate where the train will arrive
>       * Name of the destination of each train
>       * ID of each train
>       * Delay
> 3) GPS Coordinate of one train:
> 
> Very funny but quite useless... :-p
> As we say in french: "Inutile donc indispensable"
> 
> Picture: http://img.skitch.com/20100806-erydjc45rr92jmrpikdic2mukc.jpg
> 
> How to?:
> "http://www.railtime.be/website/trainpositions.aspx?l=FR&smc=1&dep=True&tn="+tID
> 
> Informations: 
>       * Latitude
>       * Longitude
> 
> 4) GPS Coordinate of a station:
> 
> I use this to create a GPS guidance within my application using the
> free GPS software from Google!
> That's a nice feature:
> 
> How to?:
> http://www.railtime.be/website/trainpositions.aspx?l=FR&smc=1&stat="+int_gare_id+"&dep=True"
> 
> Informations: 
>       * Latitude
>       * Longitude
> 
> 
> 5) The price of a ticket:
> 
> Not implemented yet in my application
> 
> You should do something with this adress:
> http://sefora.b-rail.be/sefora/Sefora/berekenen.do?action=accessTicket&langue=2
> 
> 
> 
> I know that's not a good time for a student, take your time, but I
> hope that these informations will be usefull for everybody!
> 
> 
> 
> Kind regards
> 
> Christophe
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