With no London Show today, it’s a perfect time to remember Wakefield! This year’s Wakefield show was a slightly unusual one for a couple of reasons. Firstly, the show was held around a month later than usual, on 21st May, rather than its traditional April slot – although you could also argue that it had returned to its original traditional month; the show started out in May back in 1996.
StreetFix is an application from Kevin Wells that makes it possible to check up on and report problems in different postcode districts of the United Kingdom. It does this by using Wget and an internet connection to talk to a remote site, relaying user requests as necessary – and in this case, the site in question is FixMyStreet.
Kevin Wells has released another update to KevNav, his application for planning how to get from A to B. It works by using Wget to relay a start point and destination to the Transport API website, retrieve the results, and display it in a window in the RISC OS desktop.
ALso: The Midlands User Group now has a YouTube Channel – the RISC OS MUG Zone. The inaugural virtual show hosted by the Midlands User Group (MUG) took place on 2nd July – and being an online event, it’s no surprise that the various presentations were recorded with the aim of making them available online after.
Kevin Wells has spent a little time working on his route finding application KevNav, the result of which is the release of version 1.02. This update adds support for public transport when it comes to finding out how to get to your chosen destination.
This year’s Wakefield Bradford Wradfold Show – the first in person RISC OS Show in the North of England since the 2019 event in Wakefield, and the 25th physical show organised by the Wakefield RISC OS Computer Club (WROCC) – takes places this Saturday, 21st May.
Yes, it can now take you there and back again. Kevin Wells has released an update to his latest application, KevNav, a route finding tool that uses Wget to look up directions from one place to another on the Transport API website.
A roundup of 2021 news and releases not already covered on RISCOSitory With 2021 now behind us, the time has come for one final round up of news that hasn’t already found its way onto onto these pages – although this time, in fact, it’s the only round up of such news for 2021; for 2020, a snippets post appeared half way through the year and then another just after the year ended – but no earlier post has been compiled for 2021.
If you need to find your way from ‘a’ to ‘b’ you have a number of options available to you, with the most modern of these being to use a SatNav. However, some people (hello!) find their nagging insistence that you do what they tell you somewhat annoying, so very rarely bother to use them.
Not long after updating TrainTimes so that it could launch RiscOSM(or other suitable application) to display stations on a map, Kevin Wells has added a similar facility to BusTimes, an application that allows users of public transport to plan their bus journeys using the RISC OS desktop.