Archive for December, 2008

Coming Soon: Auto detect city rates & support for all mobiles

Posted in Features on December 31st, 2008 by jordan – Be the first to comment

Over the past few days I’ve been compiling a list of rates for different cities. These will include major cities in the US and most capital cities in Canada. If you search “232 Thomas St, New York, NY” it will check to see if there is a rate for New York and then automatically adjust it for you.

This will take a bit of time but I will be releasing a list of the cities that will be supported. If you know the taxi rates in your city and it’s not listed here, shoot me an email and I’ll put it up.

The next feature on the list is support for mobiles! God it feels good to say that. The original idea of taxime.ca was to target mobile users specifically, now it feels like we’re getting closer to that.

For the geeks: The reason I hadn’t implemented it before is because Google only offers a javascript API for GDirections and most cell phones don’t support javascript. I have recently found a way to get around this – hopefully it’s legal :s

Featured in the Ottawa Metro

Posted in Uncategorized on December 16th, 2008 by jordan – Be the first to comment

This morning has been an exciting one, Tracey Tong from the Metro decided to write an article about Taxi Me. The article can be found here http://www.metronews.ca/ottawa/local/article/155596

Wait time and rush hour features added!

Posted in Features on December 14th, 2008 by jordan – 3 Comments

When you’re getting a ride in a cab there and the cab stops, the meter does not stop ticking. This led me to bring in the calculation of wait time. Wait time can mean the cabby is stopped at a red light, stop sign or is just caught is busy traffic. read more »

A web widget?

Posted in Uncategorized on December 13th, 2008 by jordan – Be the first to comment

I’ve scrapped the previous feature I posted about – why you ask? Because it was starting to turn a simple app into something more complex. This app does not require presets for different cities, if you know what your city’s cab fare is then you can enter the fare and save it. It should not be harder than that.

I do agree that we should have a list of different cities and cab rates for the user to get an idea what they should plug in. This is in the works.

I’ve been getting requests from people to buy the app or ask if they could integrate it into their site. That got me thinking… Why not? I should create a little web widget for blogs and what not.

I’ll keep everyone posted on the progress!