Comments on: Edmonton Transit (ETS) officially launches Google Transit trip planning

By: Edmonton Transit in 2009 at MasterMaq's Blog

Edmonton Transit in 2009 at MasterMaq's Blog — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 04:35:24 +0000

[...] 02/18: Edmonton Transit (ETS) officially launches Google Transit trip planning [...]

By: Open Data comes to Edmonton at MasterMaq's Blog

Open Data comes to Edmonton at MasterMaq's Blog — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 17:01:34 +0000

[...] talking about open data for roughly a year now (and probably even longer). On February 18, 2009, Edmonton Transit officially launched Google Transit trip planning, which made use of a GTFS feed provided by ETS. At TransitCamp Edmonton on May 30, 2009, that data [...]

By: y3rewa

y3rewa — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 18:04:22 +0000

i’m in ets

By: Edmonton Notes for 2/21/2009 at MasterMaq’s Blog

Edmonton Notes for 2/21/2009 at MasterMaq’s Blog — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 02:34:50 +0000

[...] One of the biggest things this week was the official launch of Edmonton Transit trip planning on Google Maps. [...]

By: Sustainability at NAIT » Blog Archive » Planning Your Bus Route Just Got Easier

Thu, 19 Feb 2009 22:25:24 +0000

[...] Check out the City of Edmonton’s press release

By: Mack D. Male

Mack D. Male — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 20:28:37 +0000

Thanks for the comments everyone – glad to hear you’re finding the service useful!

Josh – I would check to make sure you have the 2.2 firmware update, and the latest Google Maps update, but otherwise it should work fine! Generally it’s a lot faster on the iPhone than on the BlackBerry.

By: Jerry Aulenbach, REALTOR®, BEd

Jerry Aulenbach, REALTOR®, BEd — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 20:13:43 +0000

Just tested it on my iPhone-very impressive. As easy to use as driving directions.

-Jerry

By: Josh Adamson

Josh Adamson — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 15:24:54 +0000

I heard about this on CBC am 740 on wednesday and was excited once I understood what it meant. I tried it out on my iPhone 3g but it loads a google map in safari browser, gets reeeaaaally slow and then crashes. I loaded up the google maps app but I don’t see anything in there for searching transit routes. Maybe I need to update my phone and hope there’s a google maps update included..

By: Megan

Megan — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 05:34:04 +0000

And? Mack was on the news.

By: Michael Speichts

Michael Speichts — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 20:55:26 +0000

I planned out my trip to and from the Edmonton Web Design and Developer Meet-Up tonight using this new service. Spot-on perfect. Each stop and transit stop number is correct. It lists the travel times and wait times just like the ETS Trip Planner does. It even has the multiple routes listed, same as ETS Trip Planner.

I have been waiting for this type of service since I moved to Edmonton in early 2007. Go Edmonton!

By: Mark Donovan

Mark Donovan — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 20:32:02 +0000

I’d be interested to see the travel times. I think I’ll try out a few test runs from North to South in the city to see just how long it can take because from my limited experience taking Edmonton public transit is uber fail unless you’re moving in a straight line or are going somewhere close to an LRT station