Jan Zdarsa Updated! Sorry for the malfunction this morning, I've already fixed everything! Recently, several web applications have appeared with timetables formatted for the iPhone. I decided to put on 14205.w5.wedos.net also my version of public transport timetables formatted for iPhone mobile phones, which shows a slightly different result than the others.
UPDATE: If you happened to try the app this morning and it didn't work correctly, it was due to some security issues with idos. So I prepared a solution and everything should be fine now.
It still doesn't look like a native application with offline timetables, so several search engines for public transport connections have appeared on the net. But for me, they always had a flaw - whether it was advertising or displaying only the nearest connection. In short, it was a slightly modified jizdnirady.cz page formatted for mobile phones (wap version).
But in reality, it's completely different for me. Rather, I'm about to go somewhere, I know roughly what time (or until) and I'd like to see more connection options, if by chance I can't make the particular one. Although I can click on the next connection, then the next connection in the nearest connection search engines, but I prefer a page full of the closest connections.
And that's why I created my own search engine for public transport timetables. It uses the website jizdnirady.cz/blind, but you get rid of the annoying signpost (selecting cities) and the code is optimized for the fastest possible loading.
Public transport timetable address for iPhone
http://jablickar.cz/mhd.php or http://mhdiphone.jdem.cz/
The results are no longer formatted for the iPhone, I would not like to cross paths with the authors (the Chaps company) and I think that after loading the result, everyone will find their way easily. You can keep these results in one of the Safari bookmarks and continue surfing in Safari.
Adding public transport timetables to the iPhone desktop
For this simple web application, I created an icon to save on the iPhone desktop. You can easily create a link with an icon for timetables on the iPhone desktop.
1. Load the timetable page, e.g. enter the address on iPhone 14205.w5.wedos.net/mhd.php
2. Click the "+" button at the bottom of the screen and select "Add to Desktop".
3. In the next screen, name the timetable web page, e.g. MHD or Jízdní hrady.
4. Done! The timetable icon 14205.w5.wedos.net has appeared on your iPhone desktop
Did you know that the 14205.w5.wedos.net server is also suitable for reading from an iPhone? After entering the address 14205.w5.wedos.net, you will appear on a specially formatted version for the iPhone. This page loads faster than the full 14205.w5.wedos.net page and is therefore also suitable for use with GPRS.
Tk it's the same as the wap version of idos, so I don't see what's going on here
Nice work, but completely useless for me specifically because:
– it is only for public transport, it would require inter-city connections
– the logo is useless there, it slows down loading. I'd rather put a classic striped iPhone background there
– the icon is not my style at all – I don't like it.
on the contrary, I welcome it. At least someone is trying!
Would it be possible for him to create a file (say, in the style of 14205.w5.wedos.net/mhdpraha.php, etc.) so that the city does not have to be entered? This thing slows things down a lot, for example for B&W... I know, it's a lot of crap, but the less you have to enter, the better...
wow, I needed it recently and navigating the tram on full pages was a disaster. Thanks!
I long for one function, but it probably won't work without the IDOS API...
use geo-location in the iPhone to determine the location, find the nearest stops on the server in the database (i.e. someone would have to create the database) and then send a set of queries to IDOS for possible connections (I assume that there are more nearby stops in the database), then somehow filter and display them...
The result will be an application that will tell me how to get from where I am to where I want to go :)
but this probably won't work without cooperation with the IDOS API... and we probably won't get the API :(
PS: I'm quite surprised that no Czech taxi service has a trivial application with one big button - "CALL TAXI"... the phone would get the location from GPS and possibly let the user specify it...
Jablickar: parade, great, thanks a lot! :)
So it's probably useful on IDOS:
"An attempt to improperly access an internal function of the IDOS server."
Definitely a useful thing, even if it doesn't work anymore.
In the next version, please delete the logo and complete the cities separately :)
"this is the BLIND version = display all results"
The BLIND version is the version for the visually impaired.
I just wanted to try it first, but it really doesn't work :( idos probably didn't like it ;(
Question: how is this better than imhd?
Well, the solution… I don't want to knock your work down, but basically it's just another input form for IDOS :)
Jablickar: It's no fun to give anything to the iPhone community in CZ, is it? :)
Thanks, it looks nice. It often happens to me that the non-mobile version of Idos doesn't want to play at all, even though other sites work...you need to fix this :)
Jablickar: a little bit :) In the rest of the world, it's a hair or two better... In our country, you'll make people mad even by doing something for free :)
The author of this portal definitely deserves a big thank you for creating a page for the iPhone as well, even if it is "only" a change to an already established project. This is also admirable to a large extent in my opinion, because there really aren't many people who produce ideas without the need to be directly financially rewarded for them. I personally admit that no matter how much I don't like the idos.cz portal (whether because of the advertising or the general unfriendliness), I wouldn't be able to write such an "Ajfoun" page myself, because I don't understand this work at all. I am therefore grateful to Mr. Jablíčkára :) I wish you a nice day
Thanks for the timetables. I already have them on my home screen.
And for those barking dogs who only look for mistakes: Jump into the wall, morons.
Thanks, I already have them too, it works great :-)
good work, thanks
It is certainly useful and better than the original unoptimized interface, but this is not very suitable for the iPhone. If it boasts an apple and the wording for iPhone, then I don't understand why it's not at least as wide as the entire width of the iPhone, but only up to two-thirds (and when I turn the phone to landscape, it's not even wide). In general, the controls could be bigger. The city could remember in cookies the last selected and from where and where.
I don't use it at all, so I don't want to, but a native interface like my iPhone would suit me best. Otherwise, I placed the link at http://iPhone.80.cz/ to the section Transport, every day.
Well… Of course I appreciate the effort to do something for us. But in the end, I was a little disappointed that the result of the search for connections is again in the classic desktop format and not in the iPhone format, so it is difficult to extract the numbers from it at all. In addition, I expected to search only for classic public transport connections, but it easily pulls me in the opposite direction to the train station, a few minutes' walk, then get on the train and take the train to the next station. Several times longer not only in time. And for common practice, like searching in places I don't know - I usually don't even know the names of the stops. In the Maps application, for example, I couldn't find any stop signs in Olomouc. Not even in Google Earth. And in the maps on Seznam.cz, unfortunately, it is not possible to use the iPhone in a sufficiently usable way. So I don't know how to do it. Am I missing something? I like to be taught…
Jablickar: I know, it's not your fault. And you can live with it. Anyway, it works, I just wish there was a little more. ;-) But thanks anyway.
Hello, could I ask you to add a direct link to Brno as well, just for those of us who are not from Prague or CB... thank you :)
I recommend you use the address http://m.idos.cz possibly to access IDOS via the operator's home page. It's free (at least with O2 for sure). Even in the case of access through the operator's site, you will get a better version than with direct access to http://m.idos.cz
Timetables are always found on the operator's website somewhere in the Travel section or something like that.
If you weren't stupid, you'd buy a normal phone that works and you'd download the driving directions from your mhd provider in java, as most cities already provide :D