Métro: history
Contents
Version
Registration
Installation
User Guide
Strange behaviours
How it works
Acknowledgements
History
How to contribute
Many thanks to:
- Francisco J. Sánchez for the spanish
translation;
- Alexander Schinner for the german
translation (including the user's guide + Magdeburg);
- Alex Savin for the russian translation
(including Moscow, St Petersbourg & Nijni-Novgorod);
- Paolo Martino for the italian
translation (and corrections on the Milano map);
- Sven Bring for the swedish translation
(among other contributions);
- Eric Chen & Daniel Lin for the
chinese (big5) translation;
- Bernard Vander Beken for the dutch
translation;
- Son Caokim for the vietnamese
translation;
- Asel Luzarraga for the basque
translation (and for most of Bilbao network);
- Marc Llenas for the catalan translation;
- Robert Schwandl for his web site "MetroPla.Net";
- Osamu Abe for his home page "Subways of
the World";
- Robert Reynolds for the "Subway
Page";
- Dmitry Zinoviev for his map
directory;
- Sven Brunner (for Karlsruhe
"S-Bahn" network);
- J. Leung (for the Hong-Kong network);
- Lutz Pietschker (for Berlin
"S-bahn" lines);
- Yann Pilpré (for Nantes streetcar
network);
- Wolfgang Jehle (for the
"S-Bahn" in Nürnberg);
- Jérôme Euzenat (for the Grenoble bus
network);
- Hervé Mariage (for the Grenoble
"interesting places");
- Gerhard Sorg (for his work on München,
particularly the"interesting places");
- Jeffrey Kaplan (for his work on Boston
and its "interesting places");
- Jonathan Tannenwald (for his help on
Washington/Baltimore and its "interesting
places");
- Eric Li (for San Francisco CalTrain
& Hong-Kong errors);
- Wolfgang Scheele (for the Bremen network
and the "interesting places" in Hambourg);
- Alex May (for the Stuttgart S-Bahn
network);
- Joerg Eckert (for the Hannover network);
- Lojze Primoz Pecan (for the Ljubljana
bus network);
- Thomas Demmig (for the Rhein-Neckar and
Rhein-Ruhr: Dortmund, Duisbourg, Düsseldorf, Krefeld);
- Alan Leung (for the chinese version of
the Hong-Kong network);
- Pierre You ( for the new Orléans
streetcar);
- M. Forrest Dysart Oliphant (for the
Hiroshima network);
- Christian Eckert (for the Darmstadt
& Mainz networks and part of Frankfurt);
- Marcel Klaetsch (for the Dresden
network);
- Goetz van Rissenbeck (for the Zürich
network);
- Daniel Pontreau (for the suburban lines
in Paris, among other things);
- Dario Suanj (for Zagreb network);
- Herbert Chan (for the chinese version of
Tokyo);
- Kristian M Zoerhoff (for most of
Chicago, and it was not easy!);
- Jean-Baptiste Labelle (for Strasbourg);
- Reto Gehring (for Bern);
- Pierre Meyssonier (for the Brussels tram
network);
- Douglas Julien (for Bratislava,
Salzburg, the trams in Prague & Plzen);
- Alexander Nader (for Vienna &
Athens);
- David Cantrell (for Napoli);
- Philippe Laroche (for Brest);
- Volkmar Dierkes (for Hildesheim);
- Satish Joshi (for Chennai & Mumbai);
- Ian Perrin (for Sheffield);
- Andrew (for Dublin);
- Ola Josefsson (for Göteborg);
- Vit Spinka (for Liberec);
- David Johnson (for Melbourne);
- Vincent Nadal (for Nantes buses);
- Ole Saalmann (for Leipzig trams);
- Denis Scholvien (for Bangkok);
- Mark Elsenheimer (for the PATH system in
New York);
- Gerard A. Rose (for New York and its
interesting places);
- Warren Krass (for Sydney);
- All the users who helped me correct bugs:
Christoph Munkelt
(Hong-Kong)
Cheung Koon Tung, Kent (Hong-Kong)
Marielle Gouton (Lyon)
Ryan Bayne (Toronto)
Charlie Kunz (bug with one-line
networks)
Francisco J. Sánchez (Madrid)
Andrew G. Malis (Boston)
Rémi Chéno (Paris)
Benoît Pupin (Paris)
Dan Laba (Bucarest)
R J Walsh (London)
Yann Pilpré (Madrid)
Konstantin Articus (Hamburg)
Dmitri V. Trembovetski (St Petersbourg
and beta-testing on the russian version)
Giovanni Tradardi (Madrid)
Min-Kwon Kim (Seoul)
David Knight (London)
Ludwich (München)
Axel Hartmann (Köln)
Richard (San Francisco and english
translation)
Alexander Nader (Wien)
Sven Bring (Stockholm)
Hymie! (Baltimore)
Chusung Bang (Seoul)
Robert Cherry (London line extensions)
Helmut Schober (Wien, München)
Walter Säckl (Nürnberg)
Matt Bishop (London timing information)
David Williams (Washington DC)
Haruto Hitose (Great work in Tokyo)
Loren Ryter (New York)
Jaroslav Tacheci (Prague)
Jérôme Feuillade (error on one-way
branches)
Andre Paiva (São Paulo)
Satish Joshi (error on circle lines,
Tokyo)
André Jonsson, Hamid Torabi,
Lehnhoff Jürgen (database name
conflicts)
Vladimir Penzin (Moscow)
Axel Wupper (Köln - Bonn)
Jeffrey Barrie (little problem with
russian networks)
Juan Servera (Barcelona)
Robin Gould (London)
Alvin Tang (Singapore)
Nico Knapp (Madrid, Hannover)
Carson Gaspar (New York)
Vladimir Gordeyev (Saint Petersbourg)
Wity Ganda (big crashing bug in release
1.1.3)
Jong-Mok Lee (Taegu, international &
korean)
Stefano Cingoli (Roma extensions)
Pres Nevins (Osaka)
Fabian Meyer (London)
Kevin Cheng & Eric Chen (Taipei)
Simon Géza (Budapest)
Serge Kasbi (Paris)
JC Choulot (Paris)
Tim Joseph (London)
Jacek Pietruczanis (Warsaw)
Hubert Corchia (Paris)
André Seignon & Alain Parachout
(bug on OrlyVal line in Paris)
Morten Y. Nilsen (Oslo)
Joerg Shneider (Frankfurt)
Morgan O'Donovan (London)
Andreas Gröhn (New York)
Sunny Au (London)
James M. Hildreth (Washington/Baltimore,
Den Haag)
Ben Madison (Tokyo)
Wolfgang Scheele (Hamburg and its
interesting places)
Richard Windle (London)
Peter Sørensen (Copenhagen)
Diego Kuperman (Buenos Aires)
Hanus Adler (Prag)
Francisco J. Herrero (Buenos Aires)
Steve Smythe (London)
Tom Khan (New York)
Frank Musarra (New York)
Andrew Tan (Singapore)
Alexander Pogede (Tokyo)
Pai Nay (Bangkok)
Yassar Carasso (Istambul)
Chay Benett (Osaka)
Joe Carpenter (San Francisco)
Frank Schimmoller (bug on the
"places of interest")
Truls Thirud (Oslo)
Manuel Bustillo (Mexico)
Paul Hay (Barcelona)
JM Lerga (Barcelona)
Ivan Jerônimo (corrections in
portuguese version)
Darrin Roush (Novosibirsk)
Mats Hjalmarsson (Stockholm)
Fernando Calderón (Mexico)
John Wood (London "places of
interest")
Elliot Salmons (Toronto "places of
interest")
Ferran Figueirola (Barcelona)
Gerald Fabiano (Boston)
Pierre Lagrange (Montreal, San
Francisco)
Adrian Neuhauser (Santiago)
Bruse LF Persson (Stockholm)
Richard Goldberg (Washington)
Peter J Flathmann ("places of
interest" in Bremen)
Gabriel Dandretta (Buenos Aires)
Daniel Adams (Brussels)
David Benett (bug on loop lines)
José Klingbeil (Paris, Rio de Janeiro)
Joe Odukoya (Paris)
Eduardo Paradinas ("places of
interest" in Madrid, and more)
Damian Vila (Buenos Aires)
Rainer Zenz ("places of
interest" in Berlin and more)
Torsten Kistowski (Frankfurt)
John L. Woodard (Atlanta)
Benoît Hébert (Montréal)
Martin Rath (Paris)
Roman Frillarte (Miami & Washington)
Tony Green (London)
Magnus Ågren (Stockholm)
Danny Bielik (Sydney)
Bo Dines Larsen (Copenhagen)
Oliver C. Spauka (Berlin)
Leo Moll (Düsseldorf)
Dmitry
Zharnikov (Moscow)
Robert Löhning (Berlin)
Tatjana Schmied (Frankfurt)
Andrea Lawendel (Milano)
François C (Nantes)
Brian Houlahan (Seoul)
Michael Voegeli (Zürich)
Stephen Page (London)
Jules M. Kline (San Francisco)
Andy Westley (London)
Kirill N. Timakov (Moscow)
Lesley Yeo (Singapore)
Daniel Buchta (Athens)
Saravut Teepprasan (Bangkok)
Eric Dubois (Lille)
Syamsul Anwar (Singapore)
Kim Binsted (Tokyo)
Paolo Rossi (Roma)
Benjamyn H Damazer (city information
concept + info on London, Cairo & Moscow)
Son ("bullets" in the results)
Simon Levy (Boston)
Nick Hawkins (Chicago)
Don Ellis (Hong Kong)
Ed Stelzer (New York)
Scott Terek (Los Angeles)
Martin Gugerell (Wien)
Eduard Anderl (Wien)
David Arthur (Hong Kong)
Bernard (Lyon)
J. Scott Clinton (Philadelphia and its
"places of interest")
Oliver Lim (Singapore)
Reiner Wandler (Karlsruhe)
Janne Korkkula (for a nice idea)
Jacques Rocquet (Paris)
Reinhard G Bienert (Duisburg &
Düsseldorf)
Konstantin Leshchinsky (Moscow)
Dmitry Osipov (St Petersbourg)
Trustin Lee (Seoul)
Sara Puigvert (Tokyo)
Ole Borch (Copenhagen)
Bruno Tiago Rodrigues (Lisbon)
Tony Lovell (New York)
David Roye (Philadelphia)
Gert-Jan Vons (Toulouse)
Philipp Strasser (Wien)
Babken Der Grigorian (Yerevan)
Patrick Chinn (Portland)
Michael Roeder (San Diego)
Stephen C. Carpenter (Cleveland)
Thilo Mahnig (Köln)
Russell Stodghill (Tokyo)
Gene Martin (Tokyo)
Franco Caladarone (Hannover)
Gerardo Roberto Campo Talavera
(Guadalajara)
Masuda Hideaki (Tokyo)
Jonathan Badger (Montréal tourist
sites)
Emmanuel Arnould (Tokyo)
Sophie Loizeau (Paris)
John Greene (Boston)
André Gervais (Montréal)
Neil Moakley (Philadelphia)
Emmanuel Arnould (Tokyo)
Alain Mabillon (Lyon)
George V. Neville-Neil (San Francisco)
Liam Heatley (London)
Ken Tsang (Portland)
Andreas Schmolke (Berlin)
Hugues Bonin (Montréal)
David Chew (Kuala Lumpur)
Olivier Elshocht (Bruxelles)
Steven Brown (Glasgow)
Ralf Fleischhauer (Hanovre &
Stuttgart)
Toshiyuki Suzuki (Kyoto & Osaka)
Oscar R. Cardozo (Mexico City)
Hugues Bonin (Montréal)
Stephen P. Spackman (Montréal)
Jeffrey Barrie (Moscou)
Stéphane Agnel (Munich)
Melvin SNG (Singapore)
Viktor Pavlenko (Tokyo)
Satoshi Matsui (Tokyo)
Martin Curtis (Manchester)
Wolfgang Schmidt (Dresden)
Adi Pasvante (Bucharest)
Torsten Kistowski (Frankfurt)
Alexander Rümmelin (Karlsruhe)
Vit Spinka (Prag)
Dave Ladner (Chicago)
Michael Herrmann (Dresden)
Christine Bennett (London)
Brunel Merleau-Ponty (Newcastle upon
Tyne)
Jürgen Frey alias Ludwich (München)
alias Ludwich (Munich)
Chang Zhang (Beijing)
Thomas Brückner (Karlsruhe)
Stefan Benzinger (Wien)
Roger Göbig (Frankfurt)
Barclay Tong (Londres)
Frank Laporte (Paris)
Matthew Zises (San Francisco)
Larry Basham (London)
Alexey Kuzmenko (Moscow)
Emile LeBlanc (Paris)
Franck Laporte (Paris)
Bernadette K. Gallagher (Washington DC)
Vincent Pfeil (Amsterdam, Rotterdam)
Larry Basham (London)
Salva (Barcelona)
Georges Prud'homme (Paris)
Christopher Gavula (Detroit)
Tanju Housein Oglou (Düsseldorf)
Sandra Rosenzweig (San Francisco)
Lejeune (Stuttgart)
Alain Pelc (Paris bus)
Michael Liczbanski (Warsaw)
Georg Rödler (age 8, Frankfurt sites)
Heiko D. Reiter (Hambourg)
Edouard Beltrami (Montréal)
Danilo Poccia (Roma)
Furuhashi-san (Nagoya)
Al Benazzi (Sydney)
Gregory Overmeyer (Washington)
- All those of you who use this software and sent me a
message...
Métro is the result of an association between Patrice Bernard
(who makes the program and its evolutions) and Frank Van Caenegem
(who enters, checks and corrects the subway network data). But
Métro would not be much without all those who contributed to
make this soft as it is today (see list above).
And to make it even better and more complete, we still
need your help! If you find an error or if you have an
idea for a new feature, just let us know. But you can do better
(can't you?): if you want new lines in a database or even an
entirely new network, send us the data, we'll make the database
and distribute it. Basically, you just have to give a text list
of the lines with all their stations ordered.
A few suggestions : S-Bahn lines in
Germany and Swiss, ..., interesting sites in any city (tourism or
business), subway operating times, ...
Release 3.0.2
- New cities: Leipzig
(Germany) & Den Haag / The Hague (Netherlands)
- Improved networks: Amsterdam
(tram lines added), Bangkok (shuttle bus
lines added), Brussel, Madrid, Montréal, München,
Nagoya, New York (interesting places +
extended version with PATH), Sydney,
Washington-Baltimore, Wien (interesting
places)
PALM
- Results can be copied to
the clipboard again! Tap on the results
to copy
- City selection complete rewrite:
graphical buttons, old version databases delete
option...
- More internal improvements...
PocketPC
- Line
"Deactivation" (if temporarily
closed for example)
- Case- and accent-insensitive
station lookup.
- Menus.
- Edit options (copy / cut / paste)
Release 3.0.1
- New cities: Liberec (Czeh
republic) and Melbourne (Australia, commuter railways)
- Improved networks: Boston,
Chicago, Detroit, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt
(places of interest), Hambourg, London (end of works),
Madrid (end of works), Montréal, München, Paris
bus, Prague, Roma, San
Francisco, Stuttgart, Sydney
(ferries & operating times), Warsaw, Washington,
Zagreb
- Two small bugs removed (address icon
display & internal error)
- Upgrade to the new PalmOS development kit
(4)
Release 3.0.0
- Improved networks:
Amsterdam, Bangkok, Barcelona, London,
Paris, Rotterdam
- Chinese (GB code) version for 3
cities : Guangzhou, Beijing & Shanghai
- New user interface: more
graphical and prettier (I hope you'll agree) and it
leaves more space for the calculation results
- Fast access to the "Network"
option through a "tap" on the main form title
text
- New color icon
- Improved user guide with a 1-picture
summary (please read it!)
Release 2.2.6a
- Improved networks: Brest,
Dresden, Göteborg, London, Lyon, Madrid
(end of works), Moscow, Paris (all versions), Philadelphia,
Washington/Baltimore
Release 2.2.6
- New cities: Göteborg
(Sweden), Mumbai (India), Saint Etienne (France)
- Improved networks:
Frankfurt, London, München, Paris, Philadelphia
(two versions: simple & extended), San
Francisco, Sheffield
Release 2.2.5
- New cities: Dublin
(Ireland), Sheffield (England)
- Improved networks:
Karlsruhe, Madrid (works), Paris (sites), Beijing, Tokyo
(sites), Wien (trams)
- Danish version
- Distribution file reorganization (to limit
its size)
Release 2.2.4
- New cities: Chennai
(India), Dallas (US), Teheran (Iran), Tunis (Tunisia)
- Improved networks:
Chicago, Dresden, London, München (tram lines
added), Newcastle, Paris, Tokyo
- City databases structure change for some
sync tools (hopefully without impact)
- Swedish program file renamed
("metro-se.prc")
- Re-normalization of menu shortcuts in
german version
- Improved operating-time management
(internal)
Release 2.2.3
- Improved networks: Bucharest, Frankfurt,
Karlsruhe, Kuala Lumpur, London, Paris (bus), Prag, Tokyo
(better travel time estimates)
- Performance improvement in address
book interface: the (time-consuming) contact
list scan is done only in case of a change
- Korean version (partial translation)
- Database names change to respect Palm
recommendation (implies to remove any previous version
before installing this one)
Release 2.2.2
- New bus networks: Brest
(France), Hildesheim (Germany), Mainz (Germany), Paris
("official" release)
- New tram network: Basel
(Switzerland)
- Improved networks: Berlin, Boston
(commuter rail), Brussels, Dresden,
Glasgow, Hannover, Kyoto, London, Manchester,
Mexico, Montréal, Moscow, München
(operating times), Osaka, Paris, San Francisco,
Singapore, Stuttgart, Tokyo
- Improved korean networks (both
international and korean versions): Inchon, Pusan, Seoul,
Taegu
- Calculation speed improvement on a few
cities (Philadelphia for example)
- Minor bug correction
Release 2.2.1
- Improved networks: Berlin, Chicago
(extended), Darmstadt, Grenoble, Kuala Lumpur, Montréal,
Orléans, Plzen, Salzburg, Tokyo.
- On little bug corrected (wrong cursor
positionning)
- New extra network available
(pre-release): Paris bus network
Release 2.2.0
- Improved networks: Chicago, London, Lyon,
New York, Portland, San
Francisco, Tokyo.
- Station name auto-fill (it's
back!): enter at least 3 letters, the program
completes the field with the closest station name. This
feature, deactivated by default, can be modified in the
"Options - Preferences" menu. Attention,
this feature is incompatible with the Graffiti handling
of accented letters.
- The interesting places
are now available from a button (just as the contacts)
and no more from the lines list.
- The contact list is pre-loaded on the
first request and no more during the program
initialization. Thus the performance penalty (when you
have a large address book) has no impact when starting
Métro. We're still working on this performance issue.
- Minor bug correction in the city databases
content.
- New city databases version,
incompatible with previous Métro releases: it
will allow for much larger networks!
- Chinese version (GB code)
Release 2.1.0
- Improved networks: Athens (greek version),
Boston, London, Marseille, Montréal, Paris, Philadelphia
- Nice New Feature: select
one of your contacts (from the Palm address book), Métro
uses its subway station!
Release 2.0.0
- New city: Tours (bus
network in Patrice's home town)
- Improved networks: Athens (greek
version), Montréal (tourist
sites), Napoli (tourist sites), Tokyo,
Vienna (Wien)
- Japanese version
- Upgrade of the development tools
- Bug correction: major improvement on New
York
- New feature allowing much better advice on
some network (taking into account low frequency lines)
Release 1.4.8
- New city: Pilsen (Plzen)
- Improved networks: Brussels, Copenhagen,
London, Miami, Paris, Tokyo, Wien
- Bugs correction: command bar (PalmOS 3.5),
partially opened stations...
Release 1.4.7
- New cities: Portland, San
Diego (trolley)
- Improved networks: Cleveland, Copenhagen,
Guadalajara, Hannover, Köln (Cologne), Tokyo
- Bug correction on
"international" databases
Release 1.4.6
- New cities: Catania (Sicily),
Manille
- Improved networks: Yerevan (file named
Erevan)
- Bug found on full text search (might need
a reset): upgrade highly recommended!
Release 1.4.5
- New cities: Bratislava (tram),
Genève (bus), Salzburg
(bus)
- Improved networks: Copenhagen
(operating times), Duisburg, Lisbon, New York, Osaka,
Philadelphia, Prague (complete with
trams), Toulouse, Wien, Zagreb
- Minor improvement on station name lookup
and on "fast search"
Release 1.4.4
- New city: Bern (tram)
- Improved networks: Berlin, Bilbao
(suburban trains), Brussels (complete
tram network), Duisburg, Düsseldorf, Moscow, Paris, St
Petersbourg, Seoul, Tokyo
- Vietnamese & basque
versions of the software (world premieres!)
- Accelerated route search only using graffiti
Release 1.4.3
- New city: Strasbourg (tram)
- Improved networks: Chicago, Karlsruhe, Philadelphia
(tramways), Paris, Pusan (1 new line), Shanghai
(1 new line), Seoul (complete rewrite,
with new "official" romanization), Stockholm,
Stuttgart, Tokyo
Release 1.4.2
- Improved networks: Chicago, Hong Kong,
Lyon, Philadelphia (remove older
database before install), Rio de Janeiro,
Singapore
- Bug on directions (New
York was most affected)
Release 1.4.1
- Improved networks: Los Angeles, Madrid, Rio
de Janeiro, Wien
- Bug on preferences (since version 1.4.0)
eradicated
- Full-text station name search (enter
"Etoile", the program finds "Charles de
Gaulle-Etoile")
Release 1.4.0
- Improved networks: Berlin, Boston,
Chicago, Hong Kong (remove older database
before install), New York (important bug
discovered), Stockholm, Tokyo
- Tried to make results a bit clearer (with
a bullet before each line to take)
- Moved city information on the main form
("i" icon next to the title)
- Added information on subway systems in
Cairo, London, Moscow & Paris. Send me the
information on your city to improve the other
databases.
Release 1.3.9
- Improved networks: Milano, New York,
Paris, Roma, Tokyo (chinese version)
- Progression bar displayed
during long calculations
- Better rendering of one-way stops
in the stations list (lines 7b & 10 in Paris, for
example)
- Improvement on connections management (for
line 6 in New York)
- Improvement on travel times
(no more bug on line 14 in Paris).
Release 1.3.8
- Improved networks: Athens, Bangkok,
Berlin, Budapest, Chicago, Lille, Singapore,
Tokyo, Zagreb
Release 1.3.7
- New city: Zagreb (tram
& suburban railways)
- Improved networks: Chicago
(extended version), London, Madrid, Moscow, Paris, Roma
(suburban lines), San Francisco, Singapore
Release 1.3.6
- New city: Montpellier
(new tram line)
- Improved networks: Berlin, Chicago, Darmstadt
(places of interest), Dresden, Frankfurt, Lille
(tramway network added), London, Madrid (works on line
2), Milan (places of interest and more),
Nantes, Paris (extended), Seoul, Zürich
(places of interest)
- Bug on closed lines (in the list) and
(small) improvement on the display
Release 1.3.5
- New cities: Darmstadt, Zürich
- Improved networks: Berlin,
Chicago, Dresden, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt,
Moscow, Paris
- Bug on loop lines (in Venezia) and a few
other small errors
Release 1.3.4
- New cities: Dresden,
Bochum-Gelsenkirchen, Essen, Mülheim-Oberhausen (new
repartition for the Rhein-Ruhr)
- Improved networks: Berlin,
Copenhagen, London, Madrid, Miami (new
lines: MetroMover & Tri-Rail), München,
Paris, Stockholm (extension on June 1st), Sydney,
Washington
- Error in results scrolling
Release 1.3.3
- New cities: Hiroshima, Jacksonville,
the complete Rhein-Rhur area (Dortmund,
Duisburg, Düsseldorf, Krefeld
and cities in between) thanks to Thomas Demmig, Venezia
(and its "vaporettos")
- Improved networks: Atlanta, Berlin,
Grenoble, London, Madrid, Montreal
(suburban trains), Paris (extended version)
- The dutch version of Métro (thanks to
Bernard Vander Beken)
- A little bug on the "back"
feature
- The complete german guide (I mixed things
up in the previous release)
Release 1.3.2
- New city: Magedeburg
(with "interesting places"), thanks to
Alexander Schinner
- Improved networks: Berlin
("interesting places"), Buenos Aires,
Frankfurt, London, Madrid
("interesting places"), Mexico, Paris
(extended)
- A crashing bug on circle lines
(especially London) has been eradicated
- The "Back" button switches the
"From" and "To" fields
- The program can now differentiate
"long" and "short" connections
(presently used in Madrid)
- The shortcuts to the menus are now
localized (still needs some adjustments)
Release 1.3.1
- New city : Orléans
(for a future streetcar line)
- Improved networks : Buenos Aires,
Brussels (french version), Grenoble, Paris
(extended version with complete suburban railway network)
- Option to reset the current time with the
"Clear" button
- Option to mark temporarily closed
lines (work in progress)
Release 1.3.0
- Improved networks : Barcelona,
Boston, Bremen ("places of
interest", operating hours, night buses, ...),
Chicago, Hong-Kong (big-5 chinese version), London,
Montreal, New York, Oslo (operating
hours), Paris, Santiago, Stockholm
(trams), Tokyo, Washington
- Change in time management (more
user-friendly) and feedback on the lines list (for closed
lines)
- Slight improvement on the calculations
Release 1.2.10
- Improved networks : Barcelona, Chicago
(operating hours), Hong-Kong, London
("places of interest"), Mexico, Novosibirsk,
Paris, Stockholm, Toronto ("places
of interest")
- Regression on operating hours management
- Minor corrections on the portuguese
version
Release 1.2.9
- New "city":
Rhein-Neckar (contains Mannheim, Ludwigshafen,
Heidelberg)
- Improved networks: Chicago ("places
of interest"), Mexico (new line), Oslo, Paris
- Speed improvement: calculation up to 20%
faster than the previous release!
- City information access from the
"networks" dialog
- Bug on the "places of interest"
- Journey times displayed before the
instructions (along with the "statistics")
- German user's guide (thanks to Alexander
Schinner)
Release 1.2.8
- New city: Ljubljana (bus
lines)
- Improved networks: Bangkok, Hannover
("places of interest"), Istambul, Osaka (major
update), Paris, San Francisco
- Access to the database information from
the "Networks" dialog
- Error corrected on one connection in Paris
- Compatibility with LeftHack
(work in progress)
Release 1.2.7
- New city: Hannover
- Improved network: Tokyo
- Chinese (big5) version of
the program
Release 1.2.6
- Improved networks: Buenos Aires,
Copenhagen, London (error on DLR lines), New York (B
lines completed, time adjustments), Oslo, Singapore, Stuttgart
(S-Bahn added)
- Incompatibility between the Montreal &
Monterrey databases corrected
Release 1.2.5
- New city: Bremen
- Revised networks: Buenos Aires,
Copenhagen, Hambourg (interesting
places), Prag, Tokyo
- Improvement on the journey times
computation (not yet finished)
- The first city in chinese (Taipei)
- Comments and credits on the cities:
"tap" on the window title (not yet complete)
Release 1.2.4
- Revised networks: Nürnberg,, München
(interesting places), Hamburg, San Francisco (CalTrain),
Washington/Baltimore, London, Copenhagen
- A small bug corrected on the program
Release 1.2.3
- New cities (again !):
Calgary, Manchester & Grenoble (this one is a bus
network, in test)
- Revised networks: Frankfurt, München, Nürnberg
(much improved), New York, Chicago, Tokyo,
Washington/Baltimore, London
- Travel times adjusted in London
- "Places of interest" in
Washington/Baltimore
Release 1.2.2
- New cities (that makes a total of
120 !): Birmingham, Lausanne, Rouen,
Antwerpen
- Revised networks: Barcelona, Chicago
(major update), London, New York, Nürnberg, Oslo (in
norwegian), Roma (new stations), Taipei, Warsaw
- Annoying bug corrected on Paris &
Boston (inconsistent behaviour with OrlyVal line in Paris
& Mattapan line in Boston)
- Compatibility with J-OSIII: replacement of
"-" by spaces in the international version of
the databases ("en" directory)
Release 1.2.1 (first in 2000!)
- Revised networks: Taegu (international
& korean version), Boston (interesting places),
Osaka, Roma, Taipei, Paris, London, Budapest
Release 1.2.0
- A new feature (now available on Paris
network) named "interesting places": the
program gives you directions to go to major tourist
attractions in the city. You don't have to know the
nearest subway station anymore!
- The new swedish version of the
software
- Revised networks: Singapore, Madrid,
Berlin, New York, Saint Petersbourg (russian version),
Chicago, Seoul (korean version)
- Correction of some little bugs (on circle
lines and branches)
- One big bug is now corrected (it
crashed the Pilot the 14th time you started the program);
sorry for all who experienced this problem
Release 1.1.3
- The new italian version of the software!
- New cities: Sydney and Bangkok
- Revised networks: Madrid, Moscou, Köln,
Milano, München, London
- Russian databases can now be used in
conjunction with their international versions
Release 1.1.2
- Regression on circle lines and one-way
branches corrected
- Changes in the database format (for future
evolutions)
- Database names changed (to avoid conflicts
with other programs)
- Confirmation dialog added when deleting a
database
- Error message when selecting a station
closed at the chosen time
- Alphabetic sort of the cities in the
"Network" options
- IR-beam transfer of databases (alpha-test)
- Revised networks: Frankfurt, Tokyo,
Stockholm, São Paulo, Valencia
Release 1.1.1
- Some clean-up in the user interface and in
the program
- A version of the databases without accents
or non-ASCII characters (for asian or russian Pilots)
- Revised networks: New York, Stockholm,
Washington, Tokyo, Kharkov, Madrid, Moscou, Saint
Petersbourg, Chicago, Helsinki
- Added Karlsruhe
streetcars (I "forgot" to release it quite some
time ago, sorry!)
Release 1.1.0
- GUI change for timing management
(suppressed menu, added button row)
- New "Clear" button
- Line list widened
- Circular line regression corrected
- Revised networks : London (line
extensions and timing management), Hamburg, Köln, Tokyo
(new lines), Nürnberg, Wien, Seoul,
Baltimore/Washington.
To come
- Personalized stations ("home",
"office", ...)
- Other specific features in London &
other networks
- Express trains
- Korean & japanese versions
- Database editing tool
- ...
And what won't come (except if I change my
mind), please do not insist
- Subway maps (graphical representation):
it's too much work for a very questionable result on a
tiny Pilot screen.
If you want to add a new city in Métro's
list or enhance an existing database with new lines, it's really
easy. You just have to send
us a text file containing the complete station list on each
line (with some indications for branches or one-way sections if
applicable). For more accurate results, you can add :
- The lines operating days & hours
- Travel times
- Service frequency
To add "interesting places", it's just as simple:
send us a text file giving the nearest station(s) for each place.