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Support e-mail: dublinbusroute@gmail.com
The help is not up-to-date for 1.1 yet. But it is still useful. Dublin Buster 1.2 has direct in-app access to help information. So this page is no longer maintained.
Dublin Buster is very easy to use. A quick look at the
following information will help you to use the application quickly and
efficiently.
Browse Bus Routes
Bus route map view is the main user interface of the app. It looks like
the following after you select a bus route to view on map:
After you zoom into a certain section of a bus
route, bus stops will
appear and bus route line color will change to be transparent
Select a bus stop and then touch the location
button (the first button
at the bottom toolbar) will zoom into that bus stop. Red arrows show in
which way the bus is going.
The toolbar buttons at the bottom of the screen (from left to right)
are:
- Location button: When a bus stop is selected, it will zoom in to
the bus stop. When nothing is selected, it will zoom in to user's
current location if available. Otherwise, it does nothing.
- Nearby bus stop search button: Search bus stops near user's current
location
- Bus routes button: Show all the available bus routes
- Bus stops button: Show all bus stops for a selected bus route
- Time table button: Show the time table for a selected bus route.
The button on the right top screen allows you to select map type (map,
satellite or hybrid).
The line thickness of a bus route represents the relative service
frequency. The thicker the line, the more frequent the bus route is.
Nearby Bus Stops
Nearby bus stop view shows you the bus stop close
to a location (either
map center location or your current location). The green table header
show the address or GPS coordinate (if network is not available) of the
center location.
Each bus stop can have multiple bus routes.
Selecting a bus route at a bus stop will bring you to the bus route map
view.
You can search up to a maximum radius of 2 kilometers. The
first search will show the bus stops within 500 meters. The next search
will show bus stops within 1 kilometers. The final search will give you
the bus stops within 2 kilometers.
Bus Route
Bus route view shows all the bus routes available. You can scroll up and
down to find a route . Or you can type a bus number / a bus's
destination address in the search bar to find one. When you scroll down
the list, the search bar is invisible, you can double tap on the phone's
status bar (not shown here) to go to the top of the table.
When you tap the disclosure buttion at the right
side of a bus, it will show the bus's time table. When you select a bus
route, the bus route will be shown on the map. Cancel buttion will go
back to the bus route map view without a selected bus.
Bus Stops for a Route
Bus stop view for a route lists all the bus stops for a route. You can
do simple search to find a bus stop or just scroll up and down. When the
search bar is not visible, double tap on the phone status bar bring you
to the search bar at the top of the table.
Selecting a bus stop simply bring you to the
selected bus stop on the map. Cancel button goes back to the map view.
Bus Stop Info
Bus stop info view shows you all the bus routes at the stop. The green
table header is the stop's address. You can select a bus route and
switch to other bus routes.
The three tool bar buttons (from lett to right)
at the bottom of the screen are:
- Time table button: show
time table for a selected bus route.
- Walk to the stop button: if
your current GPS location is available, it will quit the current
application and start iPhone map app to display the walking routes to
the bus stop.
- Bug report button: allow you to report any problem
with a bus stop (inaccurate, missing, etc
Time Table
Time tables can be accessed fromÂ
multiple places in the app. There are two views available for
time table: portrait and landscape views
Time tables are cached locally on iPhone for faster access later on
once
visited. Reload button refreshes the page from Dublin Bus website.
If you find the font of a page is too small to read, you can double tap
on the a table column header and iPhone web view will automatically zoom
into the column. In the follow example, "Towards Dundrum Luas Station"
is double tapped.
Double tap the same same column will zoom back to the original view.
Support e-mail: dublinbusroute@gmail.com
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