UK rail times to Calendar

[slitchfield]

Lifted from the comments to a previous story, I wanted to highlight an addition to the excellent traintimes.org.uk. When accessed from your phone browser, the site now has the facility to add a UK train journey (via a vCal file, don't worry, it all happens seamlessly) into your phone's Calendar. Very cool, and the site only needs just over 100K of data per lookup, much less than the full Nation Rail equivalent.

Read on in the full article.

[Tzer2]

That's very clever, adding the journey straight to the calendar like that.

[tawalker]

This is certainly a useful feature - I hadn't realised that vCal objects could be downloaded via Web and loaded straight into Calendar. Does anyone know of other sites usable from an N-series device, which sport this feature (e.g. Google Calendar - will look myself)?

I've bookmarked this page on my N95 for future reference - thanks for the head-up, Steve

you can keep the typing down

e.g.

http://traintimes.org.uk/londonliver...et/chelmsford/

can be written as http://traintimes.org.uk/lst/chm/

thats nifty, now lets wait for a dutch equalivant....


as for google calender, try goosync! (its free )

[langdona]

Automatically adding things to calenders should be much more frequently used. What about when booking tickets for an event or downloading sports fixture lists etc. It not like the technology is new.

Anyway well done to traintimes!

[TomJ]

Gosh, one of my comments morphing into a front page story; how exciting! I discovered a minor snag with the calendar functionality (relating to midnight-spanning entries). Within 50 minutes of emailing Matthew (the site's owner and developer) to let him know he'd fixed the bug and emailed me back to let me know and to outline some of his plans for the site's future development. That's service you'd pay a bomb for, provided free for everyone's benefit. Can't say fairer than that!

[Tzer2]

Automatically adding things to calenders should be much more frequently used. What about when booking tickets for an event or downloading sports fixture lists etc. It not like the technology is new.

Just what I was thinking, this ought to be a standard feature on any service that deals with events or dates. The calendar file could be sent by text message even to cheap phones, so it's something with massive potential.

For example if you book an appointment at the dentist by mobile they would send the appointment to you by text with the calendar file attached.

If you buy a season ticket at a railway station, the expiration date could be sent to your phone's calendar by text and you'd remember to renew it in time.

The possibilities are endless, and your phone would become incredibly useful even to people who don't normally bother using it for appointments.

Its a shame it doesnt work with opera.sis