taxime

We’ve just finished making TaxiMe a little smarter. Now if you’re unsure of the address of the place you’re trying to get to but you know the name, go ahead and type that in.

Example: “Quiznos Ottawa” or “Burger King Vancouver”. TaxiMe will then show a list of 4 possibile addresses. At the moment Google only lets you show the first 4 but we are working on ways around this.

Unfortunately, the searching by business only works on the website and the iPhone. We will have it working for generic mobiles shortly.

A bug has also been squashed (previous post). Now, this only occured on some addresses but if you searched “90 Queen St, Ottawa”, TaxiMe would give a “Did you mean” prompt with a list of the same addresses below. Once you clicked on it, it would just loop and ask you the same question. The problem is that Google sees 4 possibilities for “90 Queen St” in the Ottawa area so you need to go a little more in depth with which one you want. The fix: if you click on one, you will now see that the input has been populated with latitude/longitude co-ordinates. This seems to work.

I recently came across a strange bug the other day on Safari. Whenever you typed in the address Safari would strip out the commas before storing it in a javascript cookie. I searched around but didn’t find anything on it, so I came up with a workaround which was just a simple decode/encode function to filter the comma back in.

This would explain why if you typed in “123 Fake St, City, PROV” you would come back to the site and it would only say “123 Fake St”. It was stripping – not that kind of stripping – but yes, character stripping my commas!

The bug is fixed and now iPhone users can stop sending me death threats