
Nearby Explorer uses
Google Transit
to provide public transportation information for several
metropolitan areas.
To use the transit feature, press Transit from the program's menu. Nearby Explorer's Transit screen
shows a list of all the transit stops within 350 yards of your position with the closest stop listed first. To
broaden the search radius, press Right Arrow.
Each list item contains the following information:
Street corner or address where the stop is located
Direction the bus travels from that stop
Distance and direction to that location from your current position
Time of the next bus serving that stop
To see a list of all the buses, select one of the stops. Nearby Explorer responds with a screen showing all
the trips that service that stop.
The buses are represented by a list of trips with the next trip listed first. Each trip item contains the
following information:
Time the trip reaches that stop location. For a list of all times, press Select.
Name of the route
Name of the bus
Number of the bus route
To follow a trip, press Right Arrow. Nearby Explorer responds by moving to the next stop on the trip,
displaying the distance and direction in the title, and refreshing the list with times relevant to that new
location.
Notice that the number of items in the list changes as the trip passes locations where other buses run. As
you move toward the center of town, more buses serve a given area.
To discover buses at other corners, press Back to get back to the Nearby Bus Stops screen and select
another stop.
Updating Transit Schedules
Nearby Explorer uses an automated system to keep its transit information up-to-date. Whenever one of
the participating transit authorities changes the schedule, Nearby Explorer downloads the schedule the
next time your device has a network connection.
See
Google's Transit Page
for information about convincing the transit authority in your area to
participate.
Search
To search the map for streets or points of interest, pick Search from the Explorer menu or press the
Search key. Explorer responds by showing a dialog that includes a list of points of interest around you.
These points are arranged so that the closest one appears at the top of the list. Each point shows the
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