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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.........
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 …
Google have got me all excited, no posts for over a month and now two in a day. With the revelation that we now have geo-coding in Google Maps for Singapore, I thought I’d try reverse geo-coding (going from lat/lng to address rather than the other way around). No real surprise that it works..........
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.........
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”.........
It would appear so, according to this cnet article which says the Google car has been sighted in Singapore. I’m not entriely convinced about the practical value of Street View, but it’s great fun and I’m sure some interesting applications will emerge once it’s here.If.........
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 or iPod Touch user, you may have wondered how the Google Maps application is able to locate you even when your inside a building and GPS doesn’t function. One way in which this is done is to use WiFi router locations. A company called Skyhook Wireless has built a.........
You probably already know that you can book a taxi in Singapore using SMS. Just send your location (address and/or postcode) in an SMS to 71222. To make this service easier to use on an iPhone I wanted to have an icon on the Home Screen to allow “one-touch” taxi booking.It.........
One of the problems with using SBS Transit’s iris real-time bus arrival information has been the cumbersome interface on mobile devices. Now Deepak Sarda of Sounds From The Dungeon has produced a mobile interface that allows you to quickly find out the arrival of all SBS Transit buses for a.........
iSinGeo.com now has more locations. Recently added are ATMs, bank branches and AXS Stations. If you have an iPhone give it a try and let me know what you think. Just point your browser to http://isingeo.com, locate yourself and find things near you.The full list of available locations is.........
The map of the planned Downtown Line has been updated to reflect the confirmed locations of the stations as described by the LTA.......
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.........
Since my last posting about TransitLink’s integrated Singapore transport planner and it’s inability to perform, I came across this paper from some Microsoft researchers about scaling web-sites to handle traffic surges. This isn’t only a TransitLink problem the SLA Street Maps site.........
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.........
There’s now quite an array of alternatives for on-line Singapore street maps, hopefully we’ll soon start to wonder what was so great about streetdirectory.com.Google Maps for Singapore has been available now for around 18 months, the most popular posting on this blog is this one from.........
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.........
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.........
The Straits Times reported today that an 8 metre by 7 metre hole has appeared in Cornwall Gardens. The hole has been created by subsidence as a result of boring work being done for the MRT Circle Line.I haven’t yet seen the hole in question, but by looking at the planned route of the Circle.........
The UN Institute for Training and Research Operational Satellite Applications Programme (UNOSAT) has data on the path of the recent cyclone Nargis and the resultant flooding. The data has been made available (courtesy of Google) as a Google Earth layer which can be downloaded here.For those that.........
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