Apologies for the semi-spammage, but as a long-time lurker and occasional
poster, I thought I might be able to get away with it.

I've written a little tube stations quiz game which I think might appeal
to some of the people here. Please feel free to take a look at
www.waitingforlunchtime.co.uk and have a play. Hope you enjoy it!

Iain

On 30 Jul 2006 10:33:57 GMT, Iain wrote:

Apologies for the semi-spammage, but as a long-time lurker and occasional
poster, I thought I might be able to get away with it.

I've written a little tube stations quiz game which I think might appeal
to some of the people here. Please feel free to take a look at
www.waitingforlunchtime.co.uk and have a play. Hope you enjoy it!

Well I got it almost all right from memory.

The beckton and king George branches of DLR did my head and I had to
look them up. I could not remember Goldhawk Road for the life of me nor
Buckhurst Hill or Grange Hill!

Remembering the north London line from memory must count as some sort of
sad memory feat.

One comment I would make is that it took about ten attempts to enter the
correct name for Heathrow T123 as there is obviously no tolerance around
getting it precisely right. The same applies to Kings Cross which has
to have St Pancras added. More bizarrely if you attempt to correct
punctuate your entry for places like St John's Wood that would be
rejected even though the programme correctly punctuates it on the map!

--
Paul C


Admits to working for London Underground!

Paul Corfield typed

Well I got it almost all right from memory.

Jammy boy!

The beckton and king George branches of DLR did my head and I had to
look them up. I could not remember Goldhawk Road for the life of me nor
Buckhurst Hill or Grange Hill!

I named Statford and Bank, but my knowlege of the DLR = zilch!

Remembering the north London line from memory must count as some sort of
sad memory feat.

I got four or five; lamentable really

One comment I would make is that it took about ten attempts to enter the
correct name for Heathrow T123 as there is obviously no tolerance around
getting it precisely right.

I gave up after three attempts; I know where it is & that's enough for me.

The same applies to Kings Cross which has
to have St Pancras added.

Yes, so I discovered...

I'm sad to say I've not yet hit 50%, so I'll study the map & return.

--
Helen D. Vecht:
Edgware.

Paul Corfield wrote in
:

One comment I would make is that it took about ten attempts to enter
the correct name for Heathrow T123 as there is obviously no tolerance
around getting it precisely right. The same applies to Kings Cross
which has to have St Pancras added. More bizarrely if you attempt to
correct punctuate your entry for places like St John's Wood that
would be rejected even though the programme correctly punctuates it
on the map!

The code I've written makes it possible to have multiple correct entries
for each station. In some places I've done that to try to catch common
punctuation problems (eg "St. Paul's" and "St Pauls" are equally valid).
You're right about St. John's Wood though, I managed to miss the correct
version out of the synonyms list. I'm open to any suggestions for all
stations, although I dare say that for every person who'd like "King's
Cross" admitted there'll be someone else who swears blind that the only
valid name for the station is "King's Cross St. Pancras".

Iain

On 30 Jul 2006 21:02:17 GMT, Iain wrote:

Paul Corfield wrote in
:

One comment I would make is that it took about ten attempts to enter
the correct name for Heathrow T123 as there is obviously no tolerance
around getting it precisely right. The same applies to Kings Cross
which has to have St Pancras added. More bizarrely if you attempt to
correct punctuate your entry for places like St John's Wood that
would be rejected even though the programme correctly punctuates it
on the map!

The code I've written makes it possible to have multiple correct entries
for each station. In some places I've done that to try to catch common
punctuation problems (eg "St. Paul's" and "St Pauls" are equally valid).
You're right about St. John's Wood though, I managed to miss the correct
version out of the synonyms list. I'm open to any suggestions for all
stations, although I dare say that for every person who'd like "King's
Cross" admitted there'll be someone else who swears blind that the only
valid name for the station is "King's Cross St. Pancras".

I cannot think of the last time that anyone I know or have heard in
conversation or who asked me directions ever used the full name. People
just call it Kings Cross - after the area.

Once there people may ask the way to St Pancras station.
--
Paul C


Admits to working for London Underground!

Paul Corfield wrote:
On 30 Jul 2006 21:02:17 GMT, Iain
wrote:

Paul Corfield wrote in
:

One comment I would make is that it took about ten attempts to
enter the correct name for Heathrow T123 as there is obviously no
tolerance around getting it precisely right. The same applies to
Kings Cross which has to have St Pancras added. More bizarrely if
you attempt to correct punctuate your entry for places like St
John's Wood that would be rejected even though the programme
correctly punctuates it on the map!

The code I've written makes it possible to have multiple correct
entries for each station. In some places I've done that to try to
catch common punctuation problems (eg "St. Paul's" and "St Pauls"
are equally valid). You're right about St. John's Wood though, I
managed to miss the correct version out of the synonyms list. I'm
open to any suggestions for all stations, although I dare say that
for every person who'd like "King's Cross" admitted there'll be
someone else who swears blind that the only valid name for the
station is "King's Cross St. Pancras".

I cannot think of the last time that anyone I know or have heard in
conversation or who asked me directions ever used the full name.

Emma Clarke? OK, so you don't *know* her, and it's not exactly a
conversation, and she's not asking for directions, but she does say
"King's Cross St Pancras" every time you pass through on the Victoria
Line.
--
Richard J.
(to e-mail me, swap uk and yon in address)

I cannot think of the last time that anyone I know or have heard in
conversation or who asked me directions ever used the full name. People
just call it Kings Cross - after the area.

Once there people may ask the way to St Pancras station.
--

Well, to be fair it'd be quite a mouthful to say the whole lot, but it's
useful to have the station named on the map for people looking for it. This
will be even more true when St Pancras leapfrogs King's Cross in importance
when the Eurostar, Javelin and Thameslink trains all go to St Pancras.

And to be nit-picky in a friendly and hopefully informative way, the area is
really St Pancras, not King's Cross! The name King's Cross technically
applies only to the junction of Euston Road with Pentonville and Gray's Inn
Roads and York Way (the King's Crossroads), and the station itself. The area
was the Battlebridge part of St Pancras, which was listed in the Domesday
Book 800 years before King's crossroads was so identified.

JRS: In article , dated Sun,
30 Jul 2006 21:02:17 remote, seen in news:uk.transport.london, Iain
posted :

The code I've written makes it possible to have multiple correct entries
for each station. In some places I've done that to try to catch common
punctuation problems (eg "St. Paul's" and "St Pauls" are equally valid).
You're right about St. John's Wood though, I managed to miss the correct
version out of the synonyms list. I'm open to any suggestions for all
stations, although I dare say that for every person who'd like "King's
Cross" admitted there'll be someone else who swears blind that the only
valid name for the station is "King's Cross St. Pancras".

Strip all punctuation, including spaces, from the user input, and
compare with the correspondingly-stripped real names : i.e. compare only
the letters. I very much doubt whether any clashes will ensue.

It might be worth *first* stripping the *word* "and" which could be
entered as "&".

There's one bug in the above, easy spot and to deal with.

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Iain wrote:
Apologies for the semi-spammage, but as a long-time lurker and occasional
poster, I thought I might be able to get away with it.

I've written a little tube stations quiz game which I think might appeal
to some of the people here. Please feel free to take a look at
www.waitingforlunchtime.co.uk and have a play. Hope you enjoy it!

Iain

Is it possible to save and come back later?

C! wrote:

Iain wrote:
Apologies for the semi-spammage, but as a long-time lurker and occasional
poster, I thought I might be able to get away with it.

I've written a little tube stations quiz game which I think might appeal
to some of the people here. Please feel free to take a look at
www.waitingforlunchtime.co.uk and have a play. Hope you enjoy it!

Iain

Is it possible to save and come back later?

Or even have a mini-game where a random section of the Tube map is
displayed and the player must just name those stations. It would make
the coding much harder I'm sure, but I have goldfish-esque attention
span and... and... what was I talking about again? ;-)