{"id":67,"date":"2004-01-08T22:11:37","date_gmt":"2004-01-08T21:11:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.devco.net\/?p=67"},"modified":"2009-10-09T17:29:22","modified_gmt":"2009-10-09T16:29:22","slug":"metro_-_public_transport_guide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/archives\/2004\/01\/08\/metro_-_public_transport_guide.php","title":{"rendered":"M\u00e9tro &#8211; Public Transport Guide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In many large cities there are train, bus, underground and sometimes water based public transport systems, these can be very confusing and you can spend hours a month staring at various maps to figure out the best route from A to B.  Enter <a href=\"http:\/\/nanika.net\/Metro\/\">M\u00e9tro<\/a> a tool for your Palm, PocketPC or Smartphone that will calculate the quickest route or route with the fewest changes for any of these systems.  It currently covers over <a href=\"http:\/\/perso.wanadoo.fr\/tatami\/Metro\/MetroV-en.html\">250 Cities<\/a> and amazingly is also freeware.<\/p>\n<p>A full overview with plenty of screenshots are available <a href=\"http:\/\/frank.vancaenegem.free.fr\/Metro\/screenshot_for_ce.htm\">here<\/a> so I will not be posting any screenshots here, but this is an essential tool for anyone living or traveling to a large city. <\/p>\n<p>Important features include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>More than 250 cities covered<\/li>\n<li>Interface available in more than 30 languages<\/li>\n<li>Compute routes based on Place of Interest, Station Name, Contact details for some stops.<\/li>\n<li>Contact list with address\/station associations in order to do route computes based on contact name<\/li>\n<li>Full display of stops on individual lines<\/li>\n<li>Auto-completion of inputs<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This is definetely an essential tool, one that I have been using since about 2000 on my Palm based PDA&#8217;s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In many large cities there are train, bus, underground and sometimes water based public transport systems, these can be very confusing and you can spend hours a month staring at various maps to figure out the best route from A to B. Enter M\u00e9tro a tool for your Palm, PocketPC or Smartphone that will calculate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[70,43],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":871,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions\/871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}