In my haste to post details of the latest Journey Planner I made some
mistakes which I must put right. I should have given first priority to
clearing the text of my posting with Journeyplan, and must point out that the
comparison with 'Transport Direct' was my personal opinion, and not that of
Journeyplan Ltd. To clarify: my position with Journeyplan Ltd. is not as an
employee, but as a technical consultant.

Please accept my apologies for any misunderstanding.

On the technical side, and in response to some of your comments, please note
the following:

1. The planner does not contain details of local buses in England and Wales
and can only be used in its full multi-modal capacity for journeys wholly
within or between Scotland, Northern Ireland, Guernsey, Jersey and the Isle
of Man. For both timetable and fares information we can only display the
information that we can source.

2. In addition to National Express and Rail services, data for England and
Wales includes some airport coach connections in order to properly integrate
air and rail services.

3. The rail portion of the planner uses nationally standardised connectional
information.

Journeyplan always welcomes feedback and constructive criticism that helps to
improve the planner and urges users to continue to provide feedback via their
website http://www.planajourney.co.uk. They will investigate and respond to
each data issue that has been raised.

Thank you for your responses.

All the best,

Iain

Worth a visit: http://www.freeourdata.org.uk/ 'Free Our Data Campaign'

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Iain Logan, Langholm, Dumfriesshire
Home: http://homepages.enterprise.net/iainlogan/
Work: http://www.planajourney.co.uk/
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In message , at 17:05:35 on Mon, 11
Sep 2006, Iain Wilkie Logan remarked:
3. The rail portion of the planner uses nationally standardised connectional
information.

But not the routing guide, it seems.

Journeyplan always welcomes feedback and constructive criticism that helps to
improve the planner and urges users to continue to provide feedback via their
website http://www.planajourney.co.uk. They will investigate and respond to
each data issue that has been raised.

Do we need to re-submit our findings, or will you send them in for us?
--
Roland Perry

Iain Wilkie Logan wrote:
1. The planner does not contain details of local buses in England and Wales
and can only be used in its full multi-modal capacity for journeys wholly
within or between Scotland, Northern Ireland, Guernsey, Jersey and the Isle
of Man. For both timetable and fares information we can only display the
information that we can source.

If you're feeling adventurous, you could source local bus information
by downloading timetable PDFs off (say) Arriva/Stagecoach/First's
website, and scraping them to extract the times.

[...]
Worth a visit: http://www.freeourdata.org.uk/ 'Free Our Data Campaign'

Yes, it's depressing that the PT industry treats its
timetable/availability data as a marketable asset, rather than a
publically available dataset which would encourage more people to
travel by bus or train.

Richard