Fwd: [transit-developers] Hour selection on Google Maps too coarse?
Laurent Gregoire
and answer below.]
Effectively, you can type in an address in the combo. However lots of
people do not even try to do that, typing in a combo-box is not
something one get used to do. It would be nice to provide some visual
feedback for the user.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Tom Brown <thec...@gmail.com>
Date: 15 December 2011 19:13
Subject: Re: [transit-developers] Hour selection on Google Maps too coarse?
To: Laurent Gregoire <laurent....@gmail.com>
Better list for Google Transit specific things:
http://www.google.com/search?q=google%20transit%20group
You can type a time in that box. In Firefox 8 in linux the cursor
doesn't appear (I think it used to) but you can type. In Chrome the
cursor shows.
On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 3:21 AM, Laurent Gregoire
<laurent....@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I'm not sure if the mailing list is the correct one, please redirect
> me if I'm wrong.
>
> When planning a trip on Google Transit for Google Maps at a certain
> date in the future, the hour selection combo box let me pick a time
> rounded to the hour. In the event where there are more than 3/4
> options per hour, how can I plan a trip starting at, let's say, 10:30
> ?
>
> Example: http://maps.google.com/maps?saddr=Cours+Victor+Hugo&daddr=Pl.+Bir+Hakeim&ll=44.834897,-0.574089&spn=0.005196,0.011362&sll=44.835935,-0.570125&sspn=0.005196,0.011362&geocode=Ff4grAId8jn3_w%3BFfwnrAIdeF73_w&vpsrc=0&dirflg=r&ttype=dep&date=20%2F12%2F11&time=10:00am&noexp=0&noal=0&sort=def&mra=ls&t=m&z=17&start=0
>
> When selecting 10:00, I get 3 options: tram at 10:07, a second tram at
> 10:11 and walk.
> When selecting 11:00, I get another 3 options: 11:07, 11:11 and walk.
>
> Problem is that there are many options (10:17, 10:30, ...) that I
> can't see (except hacking the URL, which many users won't do...)
>
> Any hints? A simple solution would be to have a finer grained hour
> selection combo box.
>
> --Laurent