Author: androidinlondon

Had an amazing time at the new Google Campus in London. Congratulations to pollarize.me who won overall.

Great, great people and lots to learn. All the sponsors are worth checking out if you want to do a start-up.. Check out Startup Weekend,

CloudMine , Wayra, Tokbox, Sendgrid

For a full report of this weekend check out TNW. Oh..and there were 19 start-ups not 18 as stated in the article.. 19!!

A few things to know before you visit London.

3. Tube stations offer free maps. Railway stations offer discounts. See www.tfl.gov.uk before you travel

• Pocket maps of the tube are easy to find and use, however the centre is not to scale so some tube stations are an easy walk to go from one to another but the map is not clear which.
• The Tourist Bus Map of London from the tube stations, show how to get around to tourist spots using the normal buses – a lot cheaper than the tour buses.
• Tube stations all have local maps on the wall and to take away. On the back they show bus services in that area.
•  Railway stations have leaflets offering discounts to tourist attractions when you have a train ticket.

4. Bus stops have lots of information.

• Check the very top of the bus stop sign for it’s letter – this will be on maps and will help to locate you to the right bus stop going in the right direction.
• Bus stops not is use are indicated by a yellow sign at the top of the bus stop sign stating not in use.
• Bus stops have information about some – but not always all – the buses that stop at that stop.
• Bus shelters have maps showing local bus routes – there are two maps – one day service and one night, check you are using the right one. Sometimes the other map is on the outside of the shelter.
• Cash is the most expensive way to travel by bus – try to get a ticket of some sort – Oyster or paper. Tube stations and shops with the Oyster logo sell them.
• Bus routes which begin with N eg N18 are night buses and are less frequent and sometimes go slightly different routes to day buses.
• Night buses run all night.
• You have to have a ticket before you get on “bendy buses” ticket inspectors are not uncommon.

5. Buy Walkin London in the Android Market to get a lot of off-line information about ticket prices, phone numbers, tourist sites nearby and an off-line street map.

Walkin London has been updated, the new version is now available in the market.

The changes include:

Menus are available in English and Spanish (auto detected from the phone settings).

The map now displays your favourites.
The indicator line between you and the destination is easier to see.

The map and info icons have been improved.
The miss-coloured London Underground Icon (only 1.6 & 2.0) has been fixed.

Tourist Attractions can now be filtered; pressing the menu button displays the pop-up menu.

Navigation now displays walking directions instead of driving directions.

Go to buy walkin london for android for your copy.

Press the menu button while looking at a list of tube stations will display a pop-up. From here you can select which tube lines to hide or show.

When you leave to view it resets to show all lines, so you can’t accidentally leave it with some lines hidden.