taxime

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!

I’m sorry to say but to use Taxi Me on your mobile, you need javascript. I would implement a PHP/server-side version so that i’d be accessible for all users but it has to do with the fact that Google only offers the GDirections API in javascript. I’m praying for them to come out with it via HTTP but it’s not looking the greatest.

Google has a thread opened for this feature request so I encourage people to “star” it to help Google make this change. If this doesn’t come into play soon, I will find a workaround.

http://code.google.com/p/gmaps-api-issues/issues/detail?id=235