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Old January 6th 12, 11:06 PM posted to uk.transport.london
Michael R N Dolbear Michael R N Dolbear is offline
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Default Have a Countdown display next to your toaster.

Mizter T wrote

On Jan 6, 6:02*pm, Clive Page wrote:

On 06/01/2012 17:14, Michael R N Dolbear wrote:

Have a Countdown display next to your toaster.
If you want to try it with your Kindle (3G or Wi-Fi) or other

device
just point the web browser at :-


http://bus.abscond.org/


That works very well, thanks for setting it up. *Could you also allow
entry of the 5-digit number, most bus stops show them and it takes

fewer
keystrokes?


If you look at the blog the OP linked to, you'll see it's actually the
work of one James Darling (who seemingly knocks up stuff like this in
the odd spare twenty minutes!) - I'm sure he'd be open to suggestions
via said blog:

http://berglondon.com/blog/2011/09/1...bus-network-ho
me/
or via http://tinyurl.com/7br3vgp

Yes. I might be able to understand the posted code but a mod is another
matter.

Since the url for the display after a search is of the form

http://bus.abscond.org/stop/75880

You can bookmark it and alter it in the browser address bar at the bus
stop just like

http://m.countdown.tfl.gov.uk/arrivals/75880

Adding the destination helps for stops on a "tea cup" section of route

and displaying multiple stops so you can decide which to walk to or to
serve an office with staff wanting multiple destination would be handy

and the ultimate would be to interlace
the infomation from http://nextbuses.mobi (same stops, different codes)
so you could get information on non-TfL buses also (example, Hampton
Court Gardens).


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Mike D