PDX Bus has been entered into the Civic Apps Challenge!

I've just found out about this challenge.  What is interesting is there is so much other public data out there that could be mashed up into other applications...

Here is my entry:

http://www.civicapps.org/apps/pdx-bus

Wish me luck!

Network problems?

Some users (including me!) are seeing very slow network updates, so slow that PDX Bus sometimes crashes.

As far as I can tell, the slowness is with the network.  The reason that PDX Bus crashes is that it is unresponsive while it accesses the network, and the iPhone OS thinks it has crashed and kills it.

I have a fix - the next version of PDX Bus has been significantly re-worked.  It will have a whirly thing on the screen, a progress bar, and all network access is done in the background.  This will not speed it up, but it will stop it from crashing.

Meanwhile - if it is very slow for you then try to access only one stop at a time, the new version of PDX Bus will be along very soon!