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Interesting anecdote from the trenches. The app was originally called BusMapper, and it was used to suggest working bus routes in London. Eventually it grew in
by bostik 13y ago
Interesting anecdote from the trenches.
The app was originally called BusMapper, and it was used to suggest working bus routes in London. Eventually it grew into handling all kinds of mass transit. (Due to processing power limitations, the first versions skipped every second bus stop to keep the graph traversal time manageable.)
The person who wrote the original version is working in my team.
- coderholic 13y agoI wrote much of the original BusMapper website and all of the iOS app. The only other person involved (other than Azmat, the CityMapper founder) was Mattias, who did all of the hard core routing algorithms - is he the guy on your team? You can still get the BusMapper app at https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/busmapper/id431558152?mt=8 https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/busmapper/id431558152?mt=8, but CityMapper has come a long way since then!
- andy_boot 13y agoHello. Nope its me. I built the android version.
- coderholic 13y agoOh hey Andy - sorry, I forgot about the android version! Hope you're well! :)
- andy_boot 13y agoNo worries Ben. I imagine you wrote more code than I did for BusMapper anyway.
- bostik 13y agoAndy exposed himself already. :)