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DS homebrew announcements > Cleveland Rapid Transit Map

#153362 - qw3rky - Sat Mar 29, 2008 3:54 am

Recently, I went out to Cleveland, Ohio for an internship. The most convenient way to get to work was to take the rapid train into downtown. Being a white kid from the suburbs, I wasn't all that familiar with public transportation, but I resolved to make use of it the best I could. To help myself learn the routes and timings of the trains and buses, I made a little map for my DS which I could consult whenever I was feeling lost.

I cleaned up the code, ported the graphics functionality to use the cool new uLib library from Brunni, and I'm releasing it here. You can scroll around a map of the Cleveland RTA, and then you can click on train stops to see when the next few trains are coming.

I realize the utility of this is limited to the few people who live in the Upper Midwestern United States, but it was a helpful little app for me, and maybe someone else will find it useful too.

Controls:
* d-pad scrolls map
* stylus clicks on train stops and shows schedule, press any button to return to map view

Download:
http://brian.grogan.jr.googlepages.com/cleveland_rta.zip
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#153768 - gm112 - Sat Apr 05, 2008 7:17 pm

Hehe.. I'm from Cleveland, Ohio. I don't live there anymore, but I was living there about 9 or 10 months ago. There's not really much to do at downtown I'm afraid :S.

#154963 - no2pencil - Wed Apr 23, 2008 10:49 am

I live in Akron, & I work just outside of Cleveland.

When I was younger I was REALLY into the Cleveland music scene. But now, Cleveland is mostly overrun with poverty, & your right, there isn't much to do anymore.
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#154985 - Sweater Fish Deluxe - Wed Apr 23, 2008 5:38 pm

no2pencil wrote:
I live in Akron, & I work just outside of Cleveland.

When I was younger I was REALLY into the Cleveland music scene. But now, Cleveland is mostly overrun with poverty, & your right, there isn't much to do anymore.

Poverty makes the best music, though. Middle class got no soul.


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#155067 - Exophase - Thu Apr 24, 2008 6:40 pm

I'm moving back to Cleveland in a few months too.

Too bad I don't have a DS -_-