Train Finder Engine Thingy: The IndiaGroove trainfinder |
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Jan 5th, 2007, 08:36
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| Maha Guru Member  Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Portland Oregon USA
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 | Train Finder Engine Thingy: The IndiaGroove trainfinder Click the train finder link at IndiaGroove I was hoping to proudly present this thing a couple of days ago but my service provider threw a few wrenches into the process. It seems to be up now (with a few display bugs in IE 5.5) but I'm letting y'all know about it anyway. Basically I'm trying make train searches a little bit easier for everyone. You can search by City or by Station Code. Don't know a station code? Click on the stations link and do a search by name. I'll be adding many more user friendly features as time allows. First thing on the plate is to add more cities in the dropdown lists. If anyone is good with the Indian Rails system and would like to volunteer a critical eye, I'd love to hear from you. Cheers, Mr Shaktipalooza |
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Jan 5th, 2007, 08:38
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| brother my cup is empty member  Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: yörp
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| Will make sticky. And you really couldn't come up with a little more proud title eh?
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Jan 5th, 2007, 08:40
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| Amateur Photographer  Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Greater Noida (India)
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| Seems to be a good application, My question is this data real time data or you will have to upload it whenever it changes.. I mean how realiable that's the question. |
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Jan 5th, 2007, 08:59
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| Administrator  Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: NY, USA
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| Nice site, Shakti! You did it! Congrats, man!
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Jan 5th, 2007, 09:00
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| Maha Guru Member Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Portland Oregon USA
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| machadinha - well it's been a long day of putting out fires, guess i could have waited until i'd had more inspired prose  Travinfoindia - While in beta mode the data will probably be refreshed on a weekly basis. I'm still analyzing the indian rail system to see how often the data changes but am thinking once in production it will be updated continuously so no train schedule will be more than 72hours old. nadreg - Thanks! See, I actually made it happen! I still have a ton more features to develop but I figured it's useful now so why not let people have a look. |
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Jan 5th, 2007, 09:22
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| Maha Guru Member  Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: IIT-Kharagpur
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| Shakti I think you have made a valiant effort. That is the good news. Now the "Not so good news" - I looked for Secundrabad an Kharagpur - could not find either of them. Cheers Nattusbs |
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Jan 5th, 2007, 09:28
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| Maha Guru Member Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Portland Oregon USA
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| Nattusbs - yep, it's a work in progress. The train list currently presented has all the cities listed on the Indian governments rail site, it will be growing all the time. However, if you know the station code you can search that way. If you like to add some city/train stations to the list I'm setting up a development area where you can give your input! |
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Jan 5th, 2007, 09:36
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| This is just a cameo appearance  Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Chennai, India
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| It's brilliant. I'm only sorry I don't have to make any train trips just now  If you could link up with Indian Railways and create a booking system, their site would be dead! |
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Jan 5th, 2007, 10:02
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| Naan.tering Nabob  Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Abode of Glooscap
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| Great work - Love the Camel header photo - made me want to pack my bags! Made two visits & both times got through 3 train route searches with IE 5.5 - then it crashed.
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Jan 5th, 2007, 10:32
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| Maha Guru Member Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Portland Oregon USA
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| PeakXV, were you searching by City or Station Code? |
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Jan 5th, 2007, 10:36
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| Naan.tering Nabob Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Abode of Glooscap
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Jan 5th, 2007, 11:04
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| Naan.tering Nabob Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Abode of Glooscap
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| Okay I just did 5 station searchs followed by 8 city searchs - then crash. I rebooted and did 5 city searchs then crash. There is definitely some code or eating up of memory happening .... but how many searchs is the average user going to try?? Probably 1 or 2 and thus any IE5.5 problem may well go unnoticed!! |
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Jan 5th, 2007, 11:11
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| Maha Guru Member Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Portland Oregon USA
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| peakxv, i was looking through the logs and didn't see any errors. i wonder if it happens on particular city searches? if you know which cities they were that might help. thanks! |
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Jan 5th, 2007, 11:15
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| Sair Kar Duniya Ki Galib , Jindagani Fir Kahan ...  Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: India
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| Nice work. I did a search for Agra city and got the first 10 trains nicely formatted and then some more but minus the formatting. Not that I mind but I thought I would let you know. |
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Jan 5th, 2007, 11:17
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| Naan.tering Nabob Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Abode of Glooscap
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| I'll try again tomorrow for you ... and make a log of my entries - it is 12:50am here now and I have a 10:00am meeting! |
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