Following on from last week’s Android Augmented Reality browser comes ‘Nearest Tube’ for iPhone 3GS. Developed by Acrossair, authors of TVGuide, Nearest Tube overlays London Tube Station data over the reality view from your iPhone 3GS camera. Making full use of the tilt sensor and compass, you can see detailed London Underground Tube Station information [...]
Following on from last week’s Android Augmented Reality browser comes ‘Nearest Tube’ for iPhone 3GS.
Developed by Acrossair, authors of TVGuide, Nearest Tube overlays London Tube Station data over the reality view from your iPhone 3GS camera.
Making full use of the tilt sensor and compass, you can see detailed London Underground Tube Station information with the distances and the lines running through the stations all displayed on top of the view as seen by your iPhone’s camera.
Hold it flat and you can see all 13 lines with arrows and as you tilt it upwards further data such as direction, distance etc is added with stations increasingly farther away displayed as you increase the tilt. Utilising the compass the data rotates as you turn around.
Submitted to Apple and awaiting approval so for now check out the YouTUBE video:
TubeDeluxe is the perfect utility application. Based on the most simple of ideas, it fulfils a common need and does it in a way that is both simpler and far better than any existing solution. Tube Planner apps have existed on most platforms for some years, indeed PocketPC’s had a very well popular one from [...]
TubeDeluxe is the perfect utility application. Based on the most simple of ideas, it fulfils a common need and does it in a way that is both simpler and far better than any existing solution.
Tube Planner apps have existed on most platforms for some years, indeed PocketPC’s had a very well popular one from VisualIT, Tube. But TubeDeluxe is much better.
Route Planner
Author Malcolm Barclay has produced a very slick application that allows you to plan journeys across London via the Underground. It also has up to the minute information on delays and closures as well as a departure timetable.
Itinerary Route map
You can plan a journey by entering your start and destination and TubeDeluxe will plan the route and display it either on the Tube Map or as a simple Itinerary.
A great feature is the use of GPS to determine your location. Using this information it can provide information on your nearest tube stations, novel and effective.
In use it proved both quick and stable. Fire it up and you are immediately presented with the Status page that lists all the tube lines and any issues that affect them such as planned works or delays. Click on a line and it will provide detailed status information. Continue reading »
