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The newly announced Thomson Line will be 27km long and links Marina Bay to Woodlands. It will have 18 stations including Ang Mo Kio, Kebun Baru, Sin Ming, Thomson and Kim Seng. Here’s my attempt to map it in Google maps. The station locations aren’t available yet and I haven’t.........
Transport Minister Raymond Lim announced plans today to double Singapore’s MRT network by 2020. As part of this expansion two new MRT lines will be built. The Thomson Line is 27km long and links Marina Bay to Woodlands. It will have 18 stations including Ang Mo Kio, Kebun Baru, Sin Ming,.........
Reader Chau Meng Seng has come up with some great suggestions of where the MRT stations may be on the Thomson line. Here are his suggestions based on available land and major roads.Sin Ming Station - at the previous Lakeview HDB locationVenus DriveKebu Bahru station at the juntion of Ang Mo Kio.........
I’ve been meaning to do this for ages. Here’s a map of Singapore’s bike shops, or at least all those I can find, let me know if you know of others. Now I just need to get this working effectively on the iPod Touch with location search and I’ll never again have to repair my.........
The Singapore Bus Stops and Bus Services Map available here. Has now been updated, it now includes all the bus services in Singapore from:and a whole lot more bus stops, there are now over 4500 bus stops on the map (the previous version had around 3000). This has necessitated a change in.........
There’s a rumour flying around the Singapore blogosphere that the Government is about to ban the download and use of Google Earth, following a dispute between the Singapore Land Authority (SLA) and Google over copyright issues. The dispute centres over SLA’s allegation that the.........
As promised in the recent Singapore Land Transport Review TransitLink have announced a multi-modal Public Transport Journey Planner. Unfortunately it doesn’t work, at least for me right now. Maybe Saturday lunch times are an unusually busy period, or the publicity the launch has attracted has.........
I found out today about a site that provides free geocoding of Singapore Postal Codes, you can try it by clicking on the screenshot below.This is great news as it overcomes another one of the hurdles to producing Google Maps mashups for Singapore. It should now be possible to provide an easy way.........
I’ve mentioned Daniel Chin’s excellent blog on Singapore’s Land Transport before, here’s another plug for it. Daniel has used Google’s MyMaps to produce a great map of the recently announced ERP gantries. You can access the map via Daniel’s blog posting by.........
The map of the planned Downtown Line has been updated to reflect the confirmed locations of the stations as described by the LTA.......
I wrote a few months ago about Google playing the long game with Google Maps in Singapore. Back in July they started adding building footprints and now they’re finally getting on top of their geo-coding deficiencies. I haven’t done any extensive testing, but it seems that 6 digit Postal.........
There’s been a new addition to Singapore’s Mountain Bike trails. The trail is called “Ketam Mountain Bike Park @ Pulau Ubin”. I’ve added it to the Off Road Bike Trails Map. Also you can download a kml file for viewing it in Google Earth by clicking here, or on the.........
The streetdirectory.com web-site that so many Singaporeans rely on has been down since April 1st. There’s no message on the site giving any reason. It could be a technical glitch (they are in the process of migrating from open-source to Microsoft according to this Tuesday’s Digital.........
Google have continued adding more building footprints to their Singapore maps. As far as I can tell, the footprints are of all the HDB blocks, no other buildings are currently marked. So looking at Marine Parade yields the HDB footprints in the area but Marine Parade Library is missing:View Larger.........
The wisdom of the crowd seems to suggest I’m wrong, but I see no point in driving a car in Singapore. So the Google Maps directions feature has been of limited use to me, since it’s focus has been driving directions.The option to avoid highways gives some control that provides.........
If you’re an iPhone user, you can now get access to Changi airport flight arrivals and departures from a webapp. Just load isinjet.com into your browser and away you go. If you already use isingeo.com on your iPhone it’s also available there under the “Travel Information”.........
Version 2.0 of buUuk the Singapore iPhone food guide made it into the App Store today.There’s a bunch of new stuff in the app including:- add restaurants by sending a photo- a section for newly opened restaurants- easier sharing of information with other usersBut we’re most proud.........
I’ve made some changes to the Singapore Bus Stop Map to make it more useable. The bus stop markers now load depending on the zoom level of the map. If you’re zoomed out you’ll only see a selection of the bus stops, as you zoom in they all become available. This should make the the.........
I’ve just launched a web based application for the iPhone (and iPod Touch) that’s lets you find stuff near you in Singapore. The intention is to provide location data and maps for people on the move around Singapore, primarily either using Public Transport or walking.The application.........
buUuk has just become available in the iPhone app store. buUuk is a location based app for the iPhone which contains information on over 4000 restaurants and bars in Singapore. It’s a free …
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