Hey guys. Had an idea since I bought my N95 8Gb 4 years ago.

I'm living in a city which is next to sea. Using ferries for public transportation time to time. Finding which ferry when leaves the dock kinda hard, so many ferries so many times so many destinations.

So, there can be an app to do this instead of me

here is what I thought :

App will read the time from N900's clock.

App will ask for where I am and where I want to go.

App will get data from a file, preferably from a txt file so if times change I can easily update times. ( have not any programming experience on linux yet.. not much on windows either :P so If I have to update them, compiling mustn't be pain... )

And it will show when is next 2 ferry, and when was the one I missed.

[optional] if it shows the remaining time in minutes : seconds format that would be awesome.

These can easily change to bus times too. Could be very helpful in real life transportation.

So, I need a programmer which can spend some time for this project

Any ideas also welcome.

[I searched but couldn't find any topic or app that does exactly what I need.. Sorry if I am missed.]

Most such public transportation services have a website with a router built in. Have you tried just using the browser for this? Alternatively, google maps has these routes in select cities.

Well, I may check it from a paper too, instead of that I'm asking for an app which will do that instantly. It hasn't to be too much work to do such an app.

up.....

Hellooooooo..? Anybody home?

As cfh11 said, why not use their website? The N900 has an excellent browser, and you'll probably find it almost as quick as the website.

If you really want the app, this would be a great way to learn coding - "It hasn't to be too much work to do such an app. "

Well, studying civic engineering atm, 3rd year at university, so have not time to learn it, although I want to do so. Everybody has something to do I know, but I'm running out of time these years..

Same thing using their website or looking for it on paper, that's why I want it :/

Hmm... i am thinking of doing something similar for buses in my area. I'm only a beginner, so don't expect anything soon or anything great. I think I will be able to make a command line based app that can input origin and destination and based on time and day, it will output the next available transport in that route.
The data can be stored in simple csv files.

I will gladly help if I can

Hey this is a small thing that made up. jedi was right. It's a great way to learn programming.
The attached zip file includes a .py file and a .csv file. The Data.csv file has the details in the following order: Origin, Destination, Time. This file can be edited in any text editor or spreadsheet program like gnumeric, excel, etc. Data can be added in any order.

Both files should be in the same folder.

To run from n900, open terminal, cd to the directory where these files are stored, then use the command: where origin and destination is to be from the Data.csv file.
For eg, based on my data file, I can run and get the next available bus.

NOTE: Currently, the destination and origin names are case sensitive.

One way we can use it is to make a queen beacon widget to display the next available bus between two points. But I haven't figured out how to do it...

EDIT: Figured out hoe to use Queen Desktop Widget with NextBus.py
Just use enter the following commands in the Advanced Section: