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middleman · Inscrit le: 20 Jan 2003 Messages: 1

Salut!

Has anybody had any success in getting the STM bus schedules onto a PalmPilot or other handheld in a convenient way? So far the best way I've found is to copy-and-paste the schedule for a particular stop as displayed on the STM website into an Excel worksheet, which I can then load up on my Palm. This is rather labor intensive, as it has to be repeated for each stop on each route that I am interested in, and has to be redone each time the schedules change.

I e-mailed the STM webmaster last year with a suggestion that they make the schedules available for handhelds in PalmOS format. In their reply, they seemed favorably disposed to such an idea, but there were no firm plans to do so. I believe transit systems in San Francisco and Portland OR have done so already.

To travel to work, there are about 8 bus/bus or metro/bus combinations I could take, and having the schedules on my PalmPilot would allow for "on-the-fly" decisions about which one to take, as my departure time in the morning can be quite variable.

Any advice/experience/comments welcome!

Merci!

SMS · Inscrit le: 01 Fév 2002 Messages: 2381

Antonio · Posté le: Mar Jan 21, 2003 4:45 pm Sujet du message:

tfitzg · Posté le: Dim Jan 26, 2003 9:08 pm Sujet du message:

I use my Pocket PC to hold an Excel file I made of all bus schedules for lines I use, but I do it the same manual way.

And I tried accessing the AMT train schedule via the wireless Web on my phone, and I got nowhere (FRAMES! ICKY!).
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SMS · Inscrit le: 01 Fév 2002 Messages: 2381

tfitzg · Posté le: Lun Jan 27, 2003 11:10 am Sujet du message:

Maddy · Posté le: Lun Fév 03, 2003 10:30 am Sujet du message: PDF

back when my palm used to work I had tried importing the already PDF bus schedule to my palm using adobe palm PDF prog. (go to download.com to find it it's easier)

I don't remember if it worked.. but I just though I'd mention it

Antonio · Posté le: Mer Sep 03, 2003 8:41 pm Sujet du message:

I just tried out a method of importing Planibus schedules to a Palm powered handheld device. C'est un peu long mais ça vaut le coup puisque ça marche bien.

1. Trouvez l'horaire dont vous avez de besoin sur le site stm.info
2. Selectionnez le texte dans votre navigateur et copiez le.
3. Collez le texte dans MS Word
4. Savegardez le document que vous venez de créer dans Word mais au lieu d'utiliser le format *.doc, utilisez le format "MS-DOS Text with Layout (*asc)"
5. Ouvrez votre nouveau document *.asc avec Notepad (Bloc-notes) et copiez le texte qui s'y trouve.
6. Collez le texte dans un nouveau "Memo" à l'aide de votre logiciel "Palm Desktop"
7. Synchronisez votre PDA et votre ordi et voilà! Vous aurez un planibus sur votre Palm.