mcdowall

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by mcdowall 13y ago
Our map changes 3-4 times per year for new stations / closures etc so supportability of something like absolute CSS locations would never fly. Fair play for giving this a go though, it's pretty darn accurate and super quick!.
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by mcdowall 13y ago
Exactly. In our new beta site (yet to launch) Walking and Cycling are right up front alongside public transport so we're pushing more options to the user.
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by mcdowall 13y ago
It's a Schematic not Geo map. The Tube map is not intended for walking.
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by mcdowall 13y ago
Sure, feel free to drop me a mail and I'll collate and send back.
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by mcdowall 13y ago
Love the workups, I've sent them round our department (TfL).
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by mcdowall 13y ago
Just a heads up, the schematic Tube map is updated every 3 or 4 months. A member of my team tried mapping the points manually with appropriate curves in Canvas, ultimately it was a bit of a nightmare without the original Illustrator SVG fi
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by mcdowall 13y ago
This is great, I'll forward over to the guys working on the replacement to our current Flash version. The data you are using will be superceded soon with a new API with more rich information at a lot lower latency (don't worry we won't deco
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by mcdowall 13y ago
We won't, this data is readily available on our data page. In fact our new API will have much more information available, with a lot lower latency.
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by mcdowall 14y ago
It seemed to work fine in Safari for me. Love the tool, great work
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by mcdowall 14y ago
We're just in the process of nailing down the venue, but aiming for the end of May / start of June (essentially once we've managed to do some more testing and integrate some new data sources). Without giving too much away (I'll get shot by
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by mcdowall 14y ago
My team (TfL Online) has a hackathon coming up soon based on our new API, it would be good to hear how we can get that out there for the attendees to be aware of?. (I'm sure you are pretty jam packed on the schedule this time round though)
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by mcdowall 14y ago
They may not 'think' about it as you refer, but will likely be using RSS in some form, or reading a link via reddit or some other interesting achievement. Have some bloody respect.
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by mcdowall 14y ago
I was born in Cardiff but strangely never been to Swansea, currently consigned to the grey skies of London though!
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by mcdowall 14y ago
Equally, if you think of extra time in a cup match then TV schedules for the rest of the evening are definitely effected. It happens a lot.
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by mcdowall 14y ago
Congratulations, I've read your other posts and always impressed by your concise way of describing the processes you are undertaking. One thing troubles me though, why did you goto Swansea on your UK trip of all places!?
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by mcdowall 14y ago
I spent over a year at two leading newspapers recently, launching both of their new sites. I would strongly disagree they don't know what their doing, in terms of commercial partnerships, cross promotional ideas and monetization of content
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by mcdowall 14y ago
"This needs a little more context, doesn't it? Did usage drop because the app is unpopular? Did it drop because the Guardian is unpopular? Or is Facebook losing share overall?" None, FB launched the opengraph plugin with a preferred list of
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by mcdowall 14y ago
Your right, I was on public transport. Actually I went to hire a jeep but had forgot my drivers licence back in the UK, given your comments I'm probably lucky I didn't!
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by mcdowall 14y ago
I usually work for 6-9 months contracting and then set about an area of the world to travel, this year I've done Australia and Central America. Come April next year my plan is to start off in NYC, travel the states for 6 weeks and then spe
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by mcdowall 14y ago
I spent a month across the Yucatan in Mexico, Belize and around Costa Rica 5 weeks ago, I didn't experience anything like this at all, I sense an element of desperation, anger and blatant bullshit amongst this post. Belize was a really warm
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by mcdowall 14y ago
I travel two hours each way to work to London, and likewise, I sit in the quiet carriage. I've been that person to stand up, walk over and have a quiet word, but all to often I'm met with hostility and shock that we should even dare to poli
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by mcdowall 14y ago
I can't see this being a problem in most places. Most places will be a small deposit plus a month up front in places in Asia, Central America etc, however more developed places such as London, Syndey etc will be less tolerant / desperate f
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by mcdowall 14y ago
I do very much the same as you alluded to here, the only difference being that I am in tech project management (cue a gasp!) so remote pm roles really don't appear that often so I tend to do 3-6months contracting then head off somewhere coo
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by mcdowall 14y ago
I was quite surprised by the low variance for cities like NY and SF, the variance here in the UK for London is significantly greater.
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by mcdowall 14y ago
I've just had all my boxes of photos digitised and synced to Dropbox and stored the originals at my mums. It was quite satisfying to know I don't need to worry about losing them.
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by mcdowall 14y ago
About $50k a year.
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by mcdowall 14y ago
I'm a few months away but will ping you an email now, would be great to hear how I could get my service integrated.
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by mcdowall 14y ago
For anyone that is interested, the feedback received (thanks!) has been handed over and the output poll for final designs is here - https://99designs.co.uk/logo-design/vote-o42osm Any additional votes / feedback would be great
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by mcdowall 14y ago
I disagree, quite frankly I don't care for your explanation even if you were to offer it.
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by mcdowall 14y ago
Why would it not be hacker news?, Im working on a new website, coding it, designing it and the bit I have outsourced I wanted feedback on. I think flagging it is a bit childish to be frank.

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