Beta of new MyTTC "Iroquois" routing engine

[Joe Hughes]

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From: Kieran Huggins <kieran....@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 5:33 PM
Subject: New trip planner beta up
To: MyTTC <my...@googlegroups.com>


Hey all,

So over the last year or so Kevin and I have been playing around with
writing our own trip planner called "Iroquois" to take the place of
Graphserver at MyTTC.ca

It's still a work in progress as we iron out a few bugs, but the beta
is online @ http://beta.myttc.ca

We'd love it if you'd kick the tires!

The new developer API has been partially documented on our developers
page, but we haven't documented the trip planner API quite yet. We're
on it ;-) Link: http://beta.myttc.ca/developers


Features & Caveats:
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Firefox 3.5 users (in Toronto) may notice the w3c geolocation
feature :-)

You may experience the odd "502 Bad Gateway" error as we've only spun
up one merb to handle the beta - if that happens just hit refresh.

The planner may go up and down as we pull new versions onto the
server.

Some trip options are not as distinct as they should be as we've
disabled some of the "distinctness" algorithm code for bug-hunting.

"Wheelchair" & "reduced mobility" accessibility is in the works, but
Kevin and I have to go map all the stations first. We're aiming to do
it this weekend, but there are 69 of them, and some are pretty big.

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We'd love to hear any and all feedback! As usual, you can either post
here or use the feedback box on the site.

Cheers,
Kieran & Kevin

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