Comments on: A Complicated Journey http://atypicalreview.com/weblog/a-complicated-journey reviews and witterings on tv, film, games and the like Tue, 11 May 2010 12:01:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2 By: Andy http://atypicalreview.com/weblog/a-complicated-journey/comment-page-1#comment-3120 Andy Tue, 31 Mar 2009 03:21:57 +0000 http://atypicalreview.com/?p=1519#comment-3120 <p>You can give it a limit on walking distance - the max is 30 minutes at 6km/hr - so it won`t make you walk 9km.</p> You can give it a limit on walking distance – the max is 30 minutes at 6km/hr – so it won`t make you walk 9km.

]]> By: Jackson http://atypicalreview.com/weblog/a-complicated-journey/comment-page-1#comment-3118 Jackson Mon, 30 Mar 2009 13:51:56 +0000 http://atypicalreview.com/?p=1519#comment-3118 <p>Well, okay. That is funny if you asked to be somewhere before 10:45. I'm sure you figured this because you can read English, but I had assumed you had set a departure time of 1:30.</p> <p>I agree they aren't worth listing, but I still think it should. Journey Planner has a job and that is to present me with all my options - not to decide that they are ridiculous. I can do that on my own.</p> <p>In your case though it is clearly stupid, and really, 1:30 should be a part of the previous day.</p> <p>What I really want to know is what limit does it put on walking directions? If it can tell you to walk 350 metres to a station - in the event of a 4 hour wait why can't it tell you just to walk the 9 kilometres?</p> Well, okay. That is funny if you asked to be somewhere before 10:45. I’m sure you figured this because you can read English, but I had assumed you had set a departure time of 1:30.

I agree they aren’t worth listing, but I still think it should. Journey Planner has a job and that is to present me with all my options – not to decide that they are ridiculous. I can do that on my own.

In your case though it is clearly stupid, and really, 1:30 should be a part of the previous day.

What I really want to know is what limit does it put on walking directions? If it can tell you to walk 350 metres to a station – in the event of a 4 hour wait why can’t it tell you just to walk the 9 kilometres?

]]> By: Tom Charman http://atypicalreview.com/weblog/a-complicated-journey/comment-page-1#comment-3117 Tom Charman Sun, 29 Mar 2009 12:03:08 +0000 http://atypicalreview.com/?p=1519#comment-3117 <p>I knew you'd be stirring up trouble, Kearney! Actually, I asked it last week for trips arriving before 10.25am on a Sunday, and this squeezed in early on the list. It found three other perfectly sane options as well.</p> <p>I admire the journey planner for its ingenious way of getting to Brighton Beach by 8.05am -- impossible by train without an even longer wait. However I respectfully suggest that 6.5 hour trips involving 4 hour waits probably aren't worth listing. But I'm glad it did, really, because it's pretty funny.</p> I knew you’d be stirring up trouble, Kearney! Actually, I asked it last week for trips arriving before 10.25am on a Sunday, and this squeezed in early on the list. It found three other perfectly sane options as well.

I admire the journey planner for its ingenious way of getting to Brighton Beach by 8.05am — impossible by train without an even longer wait. However I respectfully suggest that 6.5 hour trips involving 4 hour waits probably aren’t worth listing. But I’m glad it did, really, because it’s pretty funny.

]]> By: Jackson http://atypicalreview.com/weblog/a-complicated-journey/comment-page-1#comment-3116 Jackson Sun, 29 Mar 2009 10:16:50 +0000 http://atypicalreview.com/?p=1519#comment-3116 <p>You do know that there isn't any public transport running at 3AM except for perhaps the a nightrider here and there. What do you want it to do? Tell you to catch a taxi? By starting the journey at 1:30 you've ruled out using all trains and most buses.</p> You do know that there isn’t any public transport running at 3AM except for perhaps the a nightrider here and there. What do you want it to do? Tell you to catch a taxi? By starting the journey at 1:30 you’ve ruled out using all trains and most buses.

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