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quijoteuniv | karma 966 | avg karma 2.43 · 2022-11-04 11:54:50

For a moment i though he did a solution for the «ghost buses» . I always used the bus app and it works fine untill, from time to time, you turned 2/3 minutes before to the bus stop, timer goes down, then says due…. And disappears!!! And no bus pass, trust me, i question myself several times. The 254 is a common offender of the “ghost buses” :)

zeristor | karma 11196 | avg karma 3.09 · 2022-11-04 12:06:58

254?

https://tfl.gov.uk/bus/route/254/

I was at a TfL hackathon once, at QMW along this route, but that is irrelevant.

Strangely TfL seemed to be beholden to Ordnance Survey for some copyright issue, it couldn't have been for the Natrional Grid reference could it?

Converting between lat/long to OSgrid was a bit tricky when you have to take the curvature of the Earth into account to get that last bit of accuracy.

https://www.movable-type.co.uk/scripts/latlong-os-gridref.ht...

PS For some reason I almost wrote Couverture of the Earth, just trying to reduce chocolate intake.

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quijoteuniv | karma 966 | avg karma 2.43 · 2022-11-04 13:47:28

Mmm… maybe it was the 271 now that i think of it. But it happen with others too

selectodude | karma 6653 | avg karma 2.78 · 2022-11-04 12:59:25

It's somewhat comforting in a bad way that this isn't an issue isolated to my city. We even have the same name for them.