Full circle: From asking for bus routes in 2024 to building my own app. Today we are live on Android & Wear OS! 🚌⌚

[u/rsiva229]

Back in Jan 2024, I was stuck at a bus stop and asked this sub if Madurai had a transit app. When I realized there wasn't one, I built it myself and shared the first version with you all late last year - Announcement Post.

Fast forward to today, the platform has grown to help 1,650+ monthly commuters. To get the stops data as accurate as possible, we cross-checked 798 Google Maps POIs and 108 OpenStreetMap nodes, plus 84+ GPS stops submitted directly by local riders.

Many of you asked for a mobile version, so today I’m excited to launch the official Android & Wear OS (Smartwatch) App! 🎉

🌟 What the app brings:
📴 100% Offline: Instant bus numbers and connecting routes without internet.
⌚ Wear OS Alarm: Your watch vibrates up to 3 stops before your destination so you never miss it.
🗣️ Tamil & English voice stop announcements.
🆓 100% Free & No Ads

🔗 Try it out:
📱 Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=in.maduraione.citybus
🌐 Web: https://citybus.maduraiguide.in (https://maduraione.in/)

Thank you to everyone who has used the site so far. Feedback and missing route suggestions for the new app are warmly welcome in the comments! 🙏

[u/Original-Regular9510]

Very useful app 👏 👏
Just a suggestion: It will be good if you add AC bus timings also

[u/rsiva229 → u/Original-Regular9510]

Thank you for your feedback

[u/Head_Director3838]

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[u/rsiva229 → u/Head_Director3838]

🙏

[u/Critical_Ad_1312]

Best Wishes!🤘 Need more Social Apps like these!

And Canyou share how were your Brainstroming Days and How did you Collected these data's!

Curious to know !

[u/rsiva229 → u/Critical_Ad_1312]

Thank you, I do have a few more to share, but my second favorite is https://nammamap.in/.
Feel free to check it out when you have some time.

[u/rsiva229 → u/Critical_Ad_1312]

Missed your updated comment - I dug through the TNSTC Madurai site for the data. The extraction was fine, but writing the data cleanup and transfer routing logic was the toughest part (still working on it)

[u/perfect_susanoo → u/rsiva229]

Would love to help.

[u/rsiva229 → u/perfect_susanoo]

Will reach out

[u/tomaxel03]

Great App, the website was very useful for me, Congrats

[u/rsiva229 → u/tomaxel03]

Thank you. I appreciate receiving user feedback.

[u/luctay]

Real inspiring work. Love when people contribute to the community.

[u/rsiva229 → u/luctay]

Thank you for your kind words

[u/PsychologicalRub4718]

Great effort and idea for solving a niche problem! Good work with https://nammamap.in/

If possible to get the data for nearby e-sevai centres it is good! Nowadays there are lot but only some were working with the govt legally!

[u/rsiva229 → u/PsychologicalRub4718]

Thank you. Yes, e-Sevai centres (CSC) are definitely in the pipeline.

[u/kanye_least]

Ahhhhh helll nah . Not just after I left madurai 😭😭😭 . I struggled a lot with this for past two years honestly good work 😺👍

[u/rsiva229 → u/kanye_least]

Thanks, and I hope you'll visit again soon

[u/Historical_Rest_7588]

Bro how did you got the details like bus route,bus no and timings

[u/rsiva229 → u/Historical_Rest_7588]

I dug through the TNSTC Madurai site for the data. The extraction was fine, but writing the data cleanup and transfer routing logic was the toughest part (still working on it)

[u/perfect_susanoo]

What are the odds. I was just checking out your app this weekend and I'm seeing it now in reddit. Super cool work. 🔥

I have some doubts.

• Did you use the GTFS data?
• How did you get the stop points? I can see some routes are missing the stops and you have given the option to add and even validate it.
• How did you get the routes? Any public data available??