Paris (works)

Station "Porte de Vincennes" (line 1) in Paris (France) will re-open tomorrow morning. Meanwhile, subway line 6 will close between "Bercy" and "Place d'Italie" for 2 monthes (a replacement bus service is available).

Use our online update services or download the "temporary" files here:

• Paris-travaux (complete rail network)
  
• Paris-full-travaux (inner city subway, bus and RER networks). To use this one on a Palm device, you must get a recent version (5.6.0 or later) of the program and directly install the file on a memory card.

Next update planned on (or around) July 12.

Berlin (works)

The engineering works affecting subway line U1 in Berlin (Germany) will end tonight. And beginning tomorrow, tram lines M17, 17 & 37 will run partial service for about 2 monthes.

Download the updated file here or with our usual online update services.

Next update planned on (or around) July 11.

Strasbourg

Tomorrow, major changes will affect the bus network in Strasbourg (France), to accomodate the recent extension of tram line B a few weeks ago.

You may download the new dtabase here right now or with our usual online update services.

Zaragoza

For the sake of completeness, N. Knapp suggested the creation of a database for the new Cercanías line in Zaragoza (Spain), which opened 2 weeks ago.

Lausanne

Next September, a major overhaul of the bus network in Lausanne (Switzerland) will occur with the opening of a new subway line. Greg provided the outlines of the new network and I prepared a new version of the database.

Paris

This afternoon, a new river service named "Voguéo" will enter in service in Paris (France). I also took the opportunity to add the "Montmartre Funicular", which will be of particular interest to tourists ;-)

The changes are already made in our special "works" databases. Use our online update services or download these files here:

• Paris-travaux (complete rail network)
  
• Paris-full-travaux (inner city subway, bus and RER networks). To use this one on a Palm device, you must get a recent version (5.6.0 or later) of the program and directly install the file on a memory card.

Amsterdam (works)

K. de Bondt reports the closing of the subway lines between Centraal station and Amstelstation in Amsterdam (Netherlands), from next Monday (June 30th) until August 17th. A shuttle bus service will be set up during this time.

A special "works" database is available here.

New York (works)

Our special "works" database for New York (USA) has been updated with the latest advisories from the MTA. It also accounts for Friday, July 4th being a holiday with "Saturday" service.

Download the new database here or with our online update services.

Attention Palm users: this database MUST NOT be installed in main memory on Palm devices (see the installation guide for details).

Next update planned on or around Friday, July 4.

Landerneau

M. Pouliquen reports some changes on the bus network in Landerneau (France).

MetrO for BlackBerry

A few days after releasing our first beta version of Metro for the Blackberry, a major issue has been encountered by some users: it appears that the software cannot access the Internet on some "personal" devices -- i.e. those that are not connected to an enterprise server.

The bad news is that it does not look easy to fix that problem, to put it mildly. I will try to find a solution but it may take time and in the interim, I'm afraid those users affected will have to do without MetrO...

The good news is that for users who don't have this problem, the software appears to run fine!

Thanks to all those who tried out this first release and reported about their experience. And special thanks to Luciano, who got out of his way to try and help me!

Berlin (works)

Service on subway line U3 in Berlin (Germany) will be back to normal tomorrow morning. Download the updated file here or with our usual online update services.

Next update planned on (or around) June 30.

Madrid

Subway line 2 in Madrid (Spain) is partly closed until the beginning of August and a replacement bus service has been set up.

A modified version of our database is available here or through our usual online update services.

Information by N. Knapp.

Paris (works)

Station "Notre Dame des Champs" (line 12) in Paris (France) will re-open tomorrow morning. Station "Porte de Vincennes" (line 1) will be closed next week-end.

Use our online update services or download the "temporary" files here:

• Paris-travaux (complete rail network)
  
• Paris-full-travaux (inner city subway, bus and RER networks). To use this one on a Palm device, you must get a recent version (5.6.0 or later) of the program and directly install the file on a memory card.

Next update planned on (or around) June 30.

Berlin (works)

Works on lines M5, M6 & M8 in Berlin (Germany) will end tonight. Subway line U1 will be partly replaced by a shuttle bus service next week-end, from Friday to Sunday.

Download the updated file here or with our usual online update services.

Next update planned on (or around) June 27.

MetrO for BlackBerry

When I committed to deliver a version of MetrO for the BlackBerry monthes ago, I did not expect it would take so long. Today, at last, the wait is almost over and I am happy to release our first beta version of MetrO for BlackBerry.


It is not yet complete but I believe it has all the essential features that will make it useful on the first day. And despite what I have written before, this is a complete "on-board" software and you will need a network connection only to download the software itself and city databases.

Complete information and a download link are available here.

Please note that this is beta software and it has not been extensively tested on real devices. If you don't want to take any risk with your data, please don't install MetrO on your BlackBerry yet.
If you do want to participate in the beta phase, please report any issue you may encounter, providing as much detail as possible (and accept our apologies). Thanks in advance!