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Eki Bright – The Case for DIY Routing
- The Case for DIY Routing When I set out making the first prototypes of Eki Bright, my train timetables iOS app for the Tokyo metropolitan area, I had no intentions of tackling routing. In fact, that was one of the selling points; the lack of routing, like lack of maps, made it visually and conceptually simpler for solving the problem of getting the next train departure time at any particular station.
When I set out making the first prototypes of Eki Bright, my train timetables iOS app for the Tokyo metropolitan area, I had no intentions of tackling routing. Each routing option will often include multiple modes (e.g. walk, train, bus) and be optimized based on some goal (e.g. soonest arrival time, cost, complexity). And finally, full-featured routing apps have no setting for “I’m a slow walker” or “I can run if it means I catch the express train and therefore a ~15 minute earlier arrival time”.
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