Share and embed your train maps

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Watch this short video to see how you can share and embed train maps on your own website, blog or the Loco2 Engine Room.

Today we’re excited to announce the launch of embeddable maps on Loco2. These clever pieces of code allow you to share your train maps on Facebook and Twitter and by email. You can also embed maps on your own blog, website, or in the Loco2 Engine Room Forum. Use the shareable maps to get advice and feedback on your chosen route, post your own tips, or to assist in planning a trip with friends.

Adding a map wherever you choose is as easy as embedding a Youtube video, and you don’t need any programming skills. Check out this short video to see how to share and embed your map, and enjoy Kate’s debut screencast!

 

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  • Jonathan Melhuish

    It’d be great to also be able to ‘embed’ the searches that produce no results – perhaps even in their own special Engine Room forum?

  • Anonymous

    Hi Jonathan, thanks for the suggestion, we’ll add it to this list! It would be great to see exactly the problems people are encountering visually… looks like we have our work cut out!

  • Jonathan Melhuish

    For me it’s usually just a message saying you can’t do journeys with more than 2 changes, so there’s not much to look at – I know you’re working on that but there will always be occasions when there’s no journeys found for some reason, so it be great to be able to just click a button to spit that out (e.g. as a table, doesn’t need to be fancy) into the engine room forum where maybe somebody can help.  I mentioned this idea to Jamie so it may already be on the to-do list :)

  • http://loco2.com/ Kate Andrews

    I think that many of the Rail fails we’re experiencing at the moment will disappear when we re-enable multi-leg searches and better timetable data. Hopefully we will be able to reduce them enough to mitigate the need to implement your suggestion. 

  • Anonymous

    As Kate says above, we’re planning to implement more complete timetable data to try and limit the number of times you see that message. Unfortunately though I think this will take some months due to data access issues, and so we will look at  improving the situation sooner than that.

  • Jonathan Melhuish

    sure, the frequency of this will hopefully reduce, but surely it’s over-optimistic to think you’ll always be able to return every journey any user ever asks of you?  Personally I tend to just give up on sites quite quickly that give me error messages – but if I was persuaded to post it to a forum and I got a reply from a human, I’d be amazed.. and maybe I’ll join in the discussion… and gradually I might turn into a loco2 ‘convert’! :)

    See, in every “problem” there’s an opportunity :)

  • Anonymous

    Sorry, yep I wasn’t clear enough. What I meant was we will look at implementing your suggestion (i.e. make a better link between “computer says no” and a human in the Engine Room) soon, because of the fact that it will take a while to implement comprehensive timetable information. 

    And you’re right, it’s over-optimistic to think we’ll be able to return times and prices for all journeys, but we will continue pushing for that ultimate dream! :)

  • Jonathan Melhuish

    Btw, great screencast Kate!  I know how hard it is to record a good voiceover, but you’re clearly a natural :)

  • Jonathan Melhuish

    Oh right, great!  Keep up the good work, guys.. the dream will come true one day :)

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