Category — justroutes

Afternoon all,

I was talking to someone last night who mentioned a decent way of collecting for charity - dublin bus receipts.

Evening all

I’m pleased to say that we are now beta testing a mobile version of JustRoutes

Now you can get the routes between you and your destination while you are on the move.

To do so, simply point your phone’s internet browser to mob.justroutes.com

You will notice that the biggest difference between this and the main site is the lack of the large city map. Don’t worry we still have the bus stops mapped in we have just opted for a simpler approach to cut down on those data charges

as always comments and suggestions are welcome so keep em coming

I’ll post some screenshots tommorrow

- Dave

We have just been made Website of the Week with ENN, an Irish news source. Full copy below.

Website of the week: JustRoutes.com
Friday, August 11 2006
by Ralph Averbuch

http://justroutes.com/
JustRoutes.com is an online travel planner created through imaginative use of existing services – otherwise known in some circles as a mashup. It’s all about making better use of public transport. At the moment it’s Dublin focused with 251 Bus, Luas, Dart and train routes to help you get where you’re going. But according to Vincent Glennon and Dave Rooney who set up the service, JustRoutes will eventually cover every public transport route for Ireland.

Hi all,

Thanks for all the comments on our posts. A number of users are asking for our email details. You can contact Dave Rooney at any stage by emailing dave@justroutes.com. If you need to contact me, just email vinny@justroutes.com but it might take me a little longer to reply.
A number of people were wondering about their being a wiki on the site to add/alter routes. If anyone would like to help us gather routes and they have a GPS device, please by all means contact me and I will let you know the details.

Vinny

hola folks,

I’m writing this from our rather oddly proportioned hotel room in London. It’s mad - the bathroom looks like something from a 60’s sci fi show, but enough about the crazy feng shui of suburban London and on with the post.

We have been traveling since 7 am and have to say that we have pretty much used almost every sort of public transport possible. The day has been somewhat odd in many respects, we had an auspicious start with a near traffic accident at 8 am this morning (if you are reading this blonde blue car lady - we are really really sorry - our taxi driver was a lil, ahem, special)

Our flight thankfully was a little less eventful as i slept all the way. once we arrived i was eager to check my mail in order to confirm the hotel details, London it seems is very shiny but really sucks for wifi access, we walked around for 3 hours in the oxford street area before finding a starbucks with net access for the rather extortionate price of £5 per hour - was not impressed. To his credit the dude behind the counter apologised before telling me the prices, surely there must be better wifi though? answers on a postcard please.

Leaving central London we found ourselves on the Docklands Light Railway which is really weird as there is no driver sitting in the front, it looks kind of like a stretched Luas, adding to the rather surreal situation was the fact that were standing in the station from the movie 28 weeks later which was still heavily barricaded and covered in CCTV cameras.

Eventually however, the bizaro tram left us outside our hotel, we checked in, Vinny started coding and i crashed grabbing a few hours sleep.

Tomorrow is the first day if the conference, I’ll post some first impressions in the morning.

take it h

Dave

We are pleased to announce that we have been selected to exhibit at the Future Of Web Applications (FOWA) conference next week in London. Ryan Carson (who you may remember as the Justin Timberlake lookalike from the Dublin DemoBar), after traveling across Europe, has shortlisted JustRoutes along with ten other startups from across the continent to come to the big smoke and show their wares next to such more established luminaries as Microsoft and Sun Microsystems. This is a great opportunity for us to meet some of the top programmers and developers in the world and show them what we are all about. We will be flying out on Tuesday, keep an eye on the blog for updates from our world tour of London.

Till next time….

Dave

Can anyone tell me if this is correct?

I was chatting to a taxi driver about justroutes.com when he angrily told me his thoughts on the transport setup we have in Ireland. While Paris have an underground metro, they only have 2000 taxis for 12 million people. It seems we have 13,500 taxis for 1 million people. Could this be correct? The taxi driver seemed pretty convinced by it! I hope its not true, as many people at 12 at night in Dublin will tell you that there are not enough taxis in Dublin. Strange times this Celtic Tiger has brought to us.

Vinny

Hi Again,

If any of our readers use Facebook, the following could be very useful to you. We are mulling over a new facebook application,available here. We want to bring our routes to where our users hang out, rather than expecting them to come just blindly to use. It is still in the very early stages, but if you can think of anything to add to it, please let us know at vinny@justroutes.com

Best Regards,

Vinny Glennon

Hi again,

We are delighted to have been picked to present at Ireland’s DemoBar which was held in the lovely if packed surrounding of ELY HQ on Hanover Quay. Over 200 people attended the event, with Ryan Carson being the invited guest.

It seems the majority of companies involved in startups on the Internet were present here in form or another. A large pity that a number of the larger established companies in the Irish Scene like daft.ie, etc could not turn up for the event to share their experiences. But with great food and drink supplied by the reliables like Microsoft and Hosting365, the night went off without a hitch. Many thanks to Web2Ireland for always pushing Irish Technology to the fore front and hopefully the Irish Media will give the group the exposure it desires.

DemoBar proved to be excellent for us, as it gave us a very exact deadline to get the Demo version of our site: justroutes.com out onto the internet and working for everyone. Many thanks also to the people who let me sleep on the couches and beds all around Dublin as we tapped out the code for the site:)

The Other companies demoing at the DemoBar were as follows;

mySay

Pixenate

Glowday

Nubiq

Loudervoice

PutPlace

Lukulu

TouristR

Polldaddy

Ken Mcgurie has done a nice article on all the companies here

Hi All,

JustRoutes.com is now in early testing! A new exciting project from the makers of UseAMap.com is coming to your screens soon. JustRoutes.com will be mapping public transportation network of the entire island of Ireland. The end result for you, the user is that with 3 simple mouse clicks on our map, you can find all the routes from your starting point to your destination for free. If there is no direct routes between your locations, we will tell you how to get there using connections among all the different types of transport, for example, take the LUAS Red Line to Abbey Street and then changing over to 16A Northbound..

At the moment, we have over 2500 stops recorded, including all the LUAS, DART and Suburban links for Dublin. More will be coming daily.

If you have any thoughts or feedback on this, please let us know at vinny@justroutes.com .

Best Regards,

Vinny Glennon