Newcastle upon Tyne

Michel Dulerm sent an important update for the Newcastle upon Tyne (UK) database, including a fix on the existing Metro lines and additional services (ferry & railway, mostly).

Würzburg

Burkhard Landskron sent some data for the city of Würzburg (Germany), including the tram lines and one bus line. I built a database upon some previous contributions by Marco Graulich & Dirk Messerschmidt which were never completed.

Web hosting

After a long time of preparation, we are currently in the process of switching our hosting service provider. It will give us more flexibility with our different web sites and services and, hopefully, better performance.

The first change you will observe is that all our services will now be available under our domain name (nanika.net). The older URLs should still be working for a while, though. Here are some useful pointers:

• www.nanika.net (or nanika.net): same as the old version, including all its hierarchy (for example http://nanika.net/Metro/);
• metro.nanika.net: Métro home page (identical to http://nanika.net/Metro/);
• imetro.nanika.net: i-Métro service;
• download.nanika.net: access to all our downlable files (metro.zip, metropalm.zip, ...);
• palm.nanika.net: web page about my other softwares for mobile devices.

I have just changed the name server for the domain a few minutes ago. It may take up to 48 hours for the changes to reach every corner of the world: please be patient if you cannot reach these new URLs in the meantime.

In case of trouble, the old version of the site is still available at http://chotto.free.fr/tatami/Metro. Please send me a mail - at akaiv (at) yahoo (dot) fr - if you observe persistent problems.

Finally, I would like to thank all the users who contributed through our PayPal donation system and thus allow us to provide this more professional hosting solution.

i-Métro

Google Maps is improving these days and I integrated some of the changes in our i-Métro service:

• A new version of the API has been released and is now used in our service. You may not see much difference but it will allow for future enhancements.
• More important, Google has added street maps for most of Europe (only satellite images were available before). i-Métro now defaults to a map view for all the covered cities. Of course, you may still switch to the satellite view if you prefer.

Reminder: i-Métro offers maps for Bologna, Hannover (for a few stops), Copenhagen, London, Los Angeles, Madrid, Sacramento (for a significant number of stops) and Paris (almost all stops).

Paris (works)

Station Ranelagh re-opens today in the Paris (France) subway. Download the updated "temporary" files:

• Paris-travaux (complete rail network)
• Paris-full-travaux (inner city subway, bus and RER networks - not usable on a Palm device)
  

Next update planned on Saturday, May 6th.

Madrid

After a message from N. Knapp, I removed the Chamartín replacement bus in Madrid (Spain), since it was redundant with another special service.

New York

A. Miranda reported a missing connection for the Lincoln Center in New York (USA).

Hannover & Bordeaux

A few changes for the Hannover (Germany) network were suggested by L. Freund. He also noticed an error on line C in our Bordeaux (France) database.

São Paulo

The green line in São Paulo (Brazil) is extended with 2 new stations this month.

Bangkok

Sylvain compiled a list of some additional places of interest for our Bangkok (Thailand) database.

Bamberg

R. Holzhauer provided the data for the bus network in Bamberg (Germany), an UNESCO World Heritage city.

Toulouse

M. Dulerm (again) sent me additions for Toulouse (France), extending it with neighbour towns (Blagnac & Colomiers), among other things.

Klaipeda

M. Dulerm provided the data for the bus network in Klaipeda (second largest city in Lithuania). He also suggested adding color for the buses & trolleybuses lines in Vilnius.

La Roche sur Yon

C. Angibaud & F. Gicquaud prepared a file for the bus network in La Roche sur Yon (France), with some places of interest.

Porto

Two metro lines where extended last month in Porto (Portugal).