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| Page Two of Tube and Tube Pro by Visual IT |
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The Pro versions feature a full color, street level map that can be used to find a street or place of interest in the city. Unfortunately, trip planning is not available for the street map. Also included is a detailed reference map of the train systems for the outer and surrounding areas of the city. Trip planning is not available for the reference map. A nice feature is the ability to get details about each station. Just tap and hold on the station you wish to learn about. Details will be given about the station, zone, connections, local entertainment, hotels, and services. Wheelchair access information is a real nice touch. You can even plan a trip to or from this station on the information screen. A missing feature that I would have liked to see, would have been the ability to enter personal notes for a station and save them in the map database.  The Action menu is used to plan you trip and perform other functions. The available choices under Action are:Load Map – Load a new city map Change Time – Change the time of the map for cities like New York Plan Trip – Select the start and end stations of a trip Find – Find a station and display it on the map Zoom – Select zoom in or out About – Information about Tube Help – Tube Help Quit – Quit Tube When planning a trip, you will select Plan Trip from the Action menu. On the Plan Trip screen, you can select the From and To stations for your trip. Once these are selected, tap on List. This will give you a text display of the lines, transfer stations, and each station you will travel through on your trip. You will even be given an estimated journey time for your trip. If you tap on Show, Tube will show you the trip on the scrolling map with a circle indicating the path of travel. Audio tones will be given for each station the route will stop at as well as transfer stations. Two features that I would like to see in the future would be the ability to press a button as you arrive in each station on the route, so you could track your travel on the map in real-time, and a large warning display telling you of an approaching transfer station. On a noisy day, it would be easy to completely miss the audio cues on the scrolling map. When planning a trip, four options are available by tapping on Options. They are: Avoid Changes at a Station – Select one station not to transfer at Avoid a Station – Select one station not to travel through Avoid a Line – Select one train line not to use Turn off trip sounds – Audio off These options can be useful to avoid lines or stations where there are known delays such as high levels of commuter traffic, maintenance, or construction. Or you may wish to avoid a station based on a personal preference. These options would be a great deal more useful if you were able to select more than one station or line to avoid in each option. Plus it would have been easier for repeated travel if you could save the option settings for the trip. Trips cannot be saved, which would have also been a nice feature.  I hope that future versions of Tube will contain basic information about each city’s subway system such as ticket prices for the planned trip, special passes and requirements, and sources of assistance. Especially for cities in non-English speaking countries. It would also be helpful if the trip directions included the platform number or location in each station, especially the transfer stations.Tube is a great product. Easy to use. Inexpensive. You can easily purchase and download Tube for the city you will be traveling to right before you leave. When traveling in a new city where the local subway system is confusing or unfamiliar, Tube will bring a welcome feeling of confidence. I plan to use it on my next trip. And so should you. Pros Easy to use Good value Support for all Pocket PCs Small storage size Station details Standard maps Demo version available for each city Cons No ability to add and save station details No ability to save trips and options No automatic time option Can only select one line or station to avoid No platform information No real-time trip tracking Rating: 4.5 out of 5 Stars. --Harvey Lee PocketPC Editor |
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