Tag Archives: sbb

The big naming issue.. a.k.a mv “GottaGo.app” “Transport.app” ?

Well, maybe the most of those who read my blog on a regular basis know the problem with “GottaGo” already. One week after I released “GottaGo” (release in the sense of ‘appeared in the App Store’), another company called “WindyStudious” released an app with the same name. No big deal – I thought. Pretty stupid, [...]

There are friends and there are friends..

If you’ve ever used “GottaGo“, you might have experienced it from time to time: The stations around you disappear on the “Closest” Screen. Why does this happen? Let me explain. So far, I used the nearby search from Google to get a list of stations around you. Fairly simple. But.. SBB.ch does i.e. not understand [...]

A swiss public transit API (SBB and Google..)

Here we go.. After weeks of going back and forth between a crappy API (sbb.ch) with exact schedule and a nice API with wrong schedule (google.com), I finally merged them into one. What are the capabilities of this API? Let’s make an example. Given you entered from = “Feldstrasse 133, Zürich” and to = “Bern”. [...]

Sunshine follows rain – GottaGo in the wild

Well.. it took me a while to get here.. And here we are now. GottaGo is done. (Well, as far as software can be done..) I’m very happy to tell, that GottaGo is ATM. out in the wild for testing and has already been submitted to the AppStore. Here are some high quality pictures of [...]