New networks: Gdansk
(Poland, the essential lines), Nancy (France, tram
opening), London (tourist version)
Improved networks: Amsterdam, Berlin
(better handling of the airports and an extended version
with some bus lines), Calgary, Dortmund
(new service and places of interest), Göteborg
(new service and places of interest), Hong Kong, Lausanne
(complete bus network), London, Lyon, Madrid, Paris,
Rennes, San Francisco (added some bus
lines), Seoul (places of interest),
Sofia, Wien/Vienna, Zagreb.
PALM
Complete rewrite of the interface
with the address book: you can have up
to 4 stops for one contact (separated by
semi-colons ";"), you can enter a
contact name as a start or end stop (with an
"@" prefix) and the program displays
the address (with the "information"
button). See the user guide for details.
The lists (contacts, places of
interest, stops and lines) are not reset anymore
when changing time
Bugs removed: crash if no city
installed, text for a walk-only result, extra
"/"in the results in some cases, beam
error on some databases
PocketPC
Improvement in the interface
with the contacts: you can have more
than one stop for each contact (separated by
semi-colons ";"), you can enter
distinct stops for the "home",
"office" and "other" address,
the program keeps the contact name instead of its
associated stop and it displays the address (with
the "information" button). See the user
guide for details.
You can enter more than
one start or end stop (separated by
semi-colons ";")
Distinctive icon for a place of
interest in the results
"Interactive" details
for the lines: you can activate/deactivate the
lines
Linked contacts added to a stop
detailed information
Better font handling (if you
change the system fonts)
Small bugs correction
Release 3.7.0
Improved networks: Dublin, Grenoble, Kyoto
/ Osaka / Kobe (joined in 1 database), London (including WAGN
lines in extended version), Madrid (end of
works), Mexico, New-York (WTC station reopened), Paris
(extended & tourist), Singapore, Tokyo, Washington /
Baltimore (including a "tourist"
version), Wien / Vienna.
PALM
You probably don't care but Métro
is now compatible with the future PalmOS 5
(checked by the PalmOS team)
Support for multi-expansion card
devices (Handera): the program finds its files on
all the available cards
Small bugs correction
PocketPC
Option to highlight "places
of interest" whose description contains a
given string, set in preferences (default to
"no entry fee")
New setup program
A few changes in the user
interface & small bugs correction
Release 3.6.0
Improved networks: Besançon, Manila,
Paris (new places of interest), Strasbourg, Tokyo,
Vancouver (line extensions)
New feature: get detailed
information on the "places of interest"
(address, phone, opening times, ...). Available in Paris
only (for a start): use the file
"paris-tourist.pdb".
PALM
JogDial complete support on
Handera devices (should be compatible with Sony
devices but not tested), up to "one-hand
operation"
Small bugs correction
PocketPC
Support for Windows CE 2.0
(Philips Nino): please read the user guide
Interface with your
contact list on all devices (except
Windows CE 2.0)
Release 3.5.0
New networks: Besançon
(France), Southampton (UK)
Improved networks: Basel
(complete change in service), Buenos Aires (new suburban
line), Kiev/Kyiv (new roman
transcription), Lisbon/Lisboa (new suburban line), London
(new southend line in extended version & stadiums in
POIs), Lyon (stop missing), New York
(new line V), Paris (bus), Philadelphia (new bus line),
Tokyo
PALM
New presentation for a line stop
list
A touch of color
(with little impact on the program size)
Improved information on stops
Small bugs correction
PocketPC
Improved presentation for a line
stop list (showing connections and POIs)
The stop list is filtered
as you type a stop name (when not using
auto-completion)
Better contact handling
(the contact's name shows along with the stop
name)
Better calculations with complex
networks
Small bugs correction
Release 3.4.0
Improved networks: Berlin, Buenos
Aires (better accuracy & places of
interest), Genève (new service),
Hamburg (airport link), Helsinki (directions), Lisboa/Lisbon
(places of interest), London (extended
version with new lines), Madrid, Milano, Moscow, München/Munich
(new service), Napoli, New York
(extended version: PATH service update), Osaka, Paris, Rotterdam
(tram network), Singapore, Tokyo, Zagreb
PALM
Detailed information on
the start or end station (new
"information" button)
Simultaneous use of roman &
cyrillic version of the russian databases
Dynamic scrolling of all the lists
Day & time are
initialized on startup
PocketPC
Full unicode support
for easy integration of the greek, russian,
korean & chinese databases... The other
"non roman" character set databases are
also supported (with the appropriate system
extension). Only in the "metro-int"
package
Full compatiblility with
PocketPC 2002 (checked on Compaq &
HP devices)
Complementary informations
on stations, places of interest, lines (click on
the start or arrival icons or in the result text)
Release 3.3.0
Improved networks: Frankfurt, Guangzhou, New
York (changes in service after WTC attack,
should be stable now), Helsinki, Kyoto, Montréal,
Palermo, Paris (bus), Reims
PALM
Detailed information on
your route: "tap" on the icons
in the results box and see the stops you'll pass
on a line, the places of interest next to a
stop...
New cities in chinese (BIG5
encoding): Beijing, Guangzhou, Hong Kong &
Shanghai
PocketPC
Exchange (beam
and receive) your city files through infrared
Send comments and thanks mails to
the author directly from the program
Subscribe to the Métro mailing
list from the program
Select your font:
useful for asian users with an english PocketPC
(copy the font files to the windows/font folder)
Contacts list is
now sortable and resizable
Associate the "pdb"
files (city networks) with Métro
Bug fix (on hyphens)
Japanese translation
Other changes: new icons, faster
operations and smaller size
Release 3.2.0
New city: Reims (France)
Improved networks: Amsterdam, Bangkok, Berlin
(changes in service), Grenoble, London (bug on DLR), Madrid,
Melbourne, Munich / München, Napoli, New
York (changes in service after WTC attack, check
the Métro web site for
updates), Pusan, Saint Louis, San Francisco, Shanghai,
Tokyo, Venezia, Vienna / Wien, Washington / Baltimore,
Zagreb
New greek version, in
metro-int.zip package (greek version of Athens moved
there too)
New option: prefered result display
(shortest or least connection route first)
Complete web site and
documentation reorganization
PALM
Extension card
compatibility (Palm, Sony, Handspring):
install the city files in the /PALM/Programs/metro
directory on the card
City file update date displayed in
the information box
Double tap city selection
Recently used stops history
(double tap on "start" or
"arrival" buttons to display the list)
Little bug correction and other
improvements
PocketPC
New graphical interface
(icons, fonts, ...)
Changes on korean version
Release 3.1.0
New cities: Croydon
(England, near London), Palermo (Italy)
Improved networks: Birmingham
(railway lines), Davos, Frankfurt, Grenoble
(some new lines & more changes to come), Hong
Kong (places of interest), Istanbul
(major bug on tram), Lyon, Montréal, New York, Osaka-Kobe
(more lines, better accuracy), Paris
(much more accurate extended version), Stockholm (line
extension), Strasbourg, Washington-Baltimore (travel
information), Wien/Vienna (works on line S7)
!!! Database format change:
please remove your old databases from your PDA and
install the new version !!! The
change will allow for new features and improved accuracy
in future releases: stay tuned!
PALM
Conformance to Palm
recommendations on database names
The czech version
is now in the metro-int.zip package
Improved networks: Beijing (renamed from
Pekin), Brasilia, Davos, Genève
(new operation), Liberec, Los Angeles
(express buses), New York, Portland (new
lines), Shanghai (new line), Singapore, Stuttgart
(missing line), Teheran (new line), Tokyo (new line), Venezia
(more changes to come)
PALM
City list navigation improvement
(first-letter selection)
Small bug fixes (for instance,
when deleting 15 cities in a row)
PocketPC
Bug fixes on czech version, line
closing, auto-completion, registry
Windows CE 2.11
PS/PC & HP/PC versions
Station history
(keep track of the last 10 stations used)
Country flags in the language
selection dialog box
More color, in the lines list
Release 3.0.4
New city: Davos
(Switzerland)
Improved networks: Amsterdam,
Dublin, Kuala Lumpur, Madrid, Moscow, New York
(major changes on July 22nd), Washington-Baltimore,
Vienna / Wien
Croatian &
Czech versions of the program
PALM
The title is back on the line
stations list
Bug corrected on chinese, korean
& japanese versions
On more little bug removed
PocketPC
Color support
HP/PC Pro 2.11, PSPC 2.11
& HPC 2000 versions available upon
request (mail to Frank)
A few bugs removed
Chinese versions (traditionnal
& simplified)
Release 3.0.3
New cities: Brisbane
(Australia) & Lodz (Poland)
Improved networks: Amsterdam, Bern,
Boston, Buenos Aires, Chicago, Den Haag / The
Hague (extended version), Helsinki
(commuter trains), Köln / Bonn, Lyon,
Madrid (works on line 2), München / Munich, New-York, Nuremberg,
Paris (bus), Philadelphia (Atlantic City line), San
Francisco, Seoul (korean version),
Stockholm, Tokyo, Wien / Vienna
PALM
More changes on the user interface
(with a button for the lines list) and again more
space for the results
User-friendly line
"deactivation" (with check
boxes)
One tiny bug removed
PocketPC
Japanese, korean and russian
versions
Link with your contacts: create a
note as <METRO>station
name</METRO>, when you select the contact name in
MetrO, the station name is automatically used
Improvements in the graphical user
interface (with a button for the lines list)
Release 3.0.2
New cities: Leipzig
(Germany) & Den Haag / The Hague (Netherlands)
Improved networks: Amsterdam
(tram lines added), Bangkok (shuttle bus
lines added), Brussel, Madrid, Montréal, München,
Nagoya, New York (interesting places +
extended version with PATH), Sydney,
Washington-Baltimore, Wien (interesting
places)
PALM
Results can be copied to
the clipboard again! Tap on the results
to copy
City selection complete rewrite:
graphical buttons, old version databases delete
option...
More internal improvements...
PocketPC
Line
"Deactivation" (if temporarily
closed for example)
Case- and accent-insensitive
station lookup.
Menus.
Edit options (copy / cut / paste)
Release 3.0.1
New cities: Liberec (Czeh
republic) and Melbourne (Australia, commuter railways)
Improved networks: Boston,
Chicago, Detroit, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt
(places of interest), Hambourg, London (end of works),
Madrid (end of works), Montréal, München, Paris
bus, Prague, Roma, San
Francisco, Stuttgart, Sydney
(ferries & operating times), Warsaw, Washington,
Zagreb
Two small bugs removed (address icon
display & internal error)
Chinese (GB code) version for 3
cities : Guangzhou, Beijing & Shanghai
New user interface: more
graphical and prettier (I hope you'll agree) and it
leaves more space for the calculation results
Fast access to the "Network"
option through a "tap" on the main form title
text
New color icon
Improved user guide with a 1-picture
summary (please read it!)
Release 2.2.6a
Improved networks: Brest,
Dresden, Göteborg, London, Lyon, Madrid
(end of works), Moscow, Paris (all versions), Philadelphia,
Washington/Baltimore
Release 2.2.6
New cities: Göteborg
(Sweden), Mumbai (India), Saint Etienne (France)
Improved networks:
Frankfurt, London, München, Paris, Philadelphia
(two versions: simple & extended), San
Francisco, Sheffield
Release 2.2.5
New cities: Dublin
(Ireland), Sheffield (England)
Improved networks:
Karlsruhe, Madrid (works), Paris (sites), Beijing, Tokyo
(sites), Wien (trams)
Danish version
Distribution file reorganization (to limit
its size)
Release 2.2.4
New cities: Chennai
(India), Dallas (US), Teheran (Iran), Tunis (Tunisia)
Improved networks:
Chicago, Dresden, London, München (tram lines
added), Newcastle, Paris, Tokyo
City databases structure change for some
sync tools (hopefully without impact)
Swedish program file renamed
("metro-se.prc")
Re-normalization of menu shortcuts in
german version
Improved operating-time management
(internal)
Release 2.2.3
Improved networks: Bucharest, Frankfurt,
Karlsruhe, Kuala Lumpur, London, Paris (bus), Prag, Tokyo
(better travel time estimates)
Performance improvement in address
book interface: the (time-consuming) contact
list scan is done only in case of a change
Korean version (partial translation)
Database names change to respect Palm
recommendation (implies to remove any previous version
before installing this one)
Release 2.2.2
New bus networks: Brest
(France), Hildesheim (Germany), Mainz (Germany), Paris
("official" release)
New tram network: Basel
(Switzerland)
Improved networks: Berlin, Boston
(commuter rail), Brussels, Dresden,
Glasgow, Hannover, Kyoto, London, Manchester,
Mexico, Montréal, Moscow, München
(operating times), Osaka, Paris, San Francisco,
Singapore, Stuttgart, Tokyo
Improved korean networks (both
international and korean versions): Inchon, Pusan, Seoul,
Taegu
Calculation speed improvement on a few
cities (Philadelphia for example)
Minor bug correction
Release 2.2.1
Improved networks: Berlin, Chicago
(extended), Darmstadt, Grenoble, Kuala Lumpur, Montréal,
Orléans, Plzen, Salzburg, Tokyo.
On little bug corrected (wrong cursor
positionning)
New extra network available
(pre-release): Paris bus network
Release 2.2.0
Improved networks: Chicago, London, Lyon,
New York, Portland, San
Francisco, Tokyo.
Station name auto-fill (it's
back!): enter at least 3 letters, the program
completes the field with the closest station name. This
feature, deactivated by default, can be modified in the
"Options - Preferences" menu. Attention,
this feature is incompatible with the Graffiti handling
of accented letters.
The interesting places
are now available from a button (just as the contacts)
and no more from the lines list.
The contact list is pre-loaded on the
first request and no more during the program
initialization. Thus the performance penalty (when you
have a large address book) has no impact when starting
Métro. We're still working on this performance issue.
Minor bug correction in the city databases
content.
New city databases version,
incompatible with previous Métro releases: it
will allow for much larger networks!
Nice New Feature: select
one of your contacts (from the Palm address book), Métro
uses its subway station!
Release 2.0.0
New city: Tours (bus
network in Patrice's home town)
Improved networks: Athens (greek
version), Montréal (tourist
sites), Napoli (tourist sites), Tokyo,
Vienna (Wien)
Japanese version
Upgrade of the development tools
Bug correction: major improvement on New
York
New feature allowing much better advice on
some network (taking into account low frequency lines)
Release 1.4.8
New city: Pilsen (Plzen)
Improved networks: Brussels, Copenhagen,
London, Miami, Paris, Tokyo, Wien
Bugs correction: command bar (PalmOS 3.5),
partially opened stations...
Release 1.4.7
New cities: Portland, San
Diego (trolley)
Improved networks: Cleveland, Copenhagen,
Guadalajara, Hannover, Köln (Cologne), Tokyo
Bug correction on
"international" databases
Release 1.4.6
New cities: Catania (Sicily),
Manille
Improved networks: Yerevan (file named
Erevan)
Bug found on full text search (might need
a reset): upgrade highly recommended!
Release 1.4.5
New cities: Bratislava (tram),
Genève (bus), Salzburg
(bus)
Improved networks: Copenhagen
(operating times), Duisburg, Lisbon, New York, Osaka,
Philadelphia, Prague (complete with
trams), Toulouse, Wien, Zagreb
Minor improvement on station name lookup
and on "fast search"
Release 1.4.4
New city: Bern (tram)
Improved networks: Berlin, Bilbao
(suburban trains), Brussels (complete
tram network), Duisburg, Düsseldorf, Moscow, Paris, St
Petersbourg, Seoul, Tokyo
Vietnamese & basque
versions of the software (world premieres!)
Accelerated route search only using graffiti
Release 1.4.3
New city: Strasbourg (tram)
Improved networks: Chicago, Karlsruhe, Philadelphia
(tramways), Paris, Pusan (1 new line), Shanghai
(1 new line), Seoul (complete rewrite,
with new "official" romanization), Stockholm,
Stuttgart, Tokyo
Release 1.4.2
Improved networks: Chicago, Hong Kong,
Lyon, Philadelphia (remove older
database before install), Rio de Janeiro,
Singapore
Bug on directions (New
York was most affected)
Release 1.4.1
Improved networks: Los Angeles, Madrid, Rio
de Janeiro, Wien
Bug on preferences (since version 1.4.0)
eradicated
Full-text station name search (enter
"Etoile", the program finds "Charles de
Gaulle-Etoile")
Release 1.4.0
Improved networks: Berlin, Boston,
Chicago, Hong Kong (remove older database
before install), New York (important bug
discovered), Stockholm, Tokyo
Tried to make results a bit clearer (with
a bullet before each line to take)
Moved city information on the main form
("i" icon next to the title)
Added information on subway systems in
Cairo, London, Moscow & Paris. Send me the
information on your city to improve the other
databases.
Release 1.3.9
Improved networks: Milano, New York,
Paris, Roma, Tokyo (chinese version)
Progression bar displayed
during long calculations
Better rendering of one-way stops
in the stations list (lines 7b & 10 in Paris, for
example)
Improvement on connections management (for
line 6 in New York)
Improvement on travel times
(no more bug on line 14 in Paris).
Release 1.3.8
Improved networks: Athens, Bangkok,
Berlin, Budapest, Chicago, Lille, Singapore,
Tokyo, Zagreb
Release 1.3.7
New city: Zagreb (tram
& suburban railways)
Improved networks: Chicago
(extended version), London, Madrid, Moscow, Paris, Roma
(suburban lines), San Francisco, Singapore
Release 1.3.6
New city: Montpellier
(new tram line)
Improved networks: Berlin, Chicago, Darmstadt
(places of interest), Dresden, Frankfurt, Lille
(tramway network added), London, Madrid (works on line
2), Milan (places of interest and more),
Nantes, Paris (extended), Seoul, Zürich
(places of interest)
Bug on closed lines (in the list) and
(small) improvement on the display
Release 1.3.5
New cities: Darmstadt, Zürich
Improved networks: Berlin,
Chicago, Dresden, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt,
Moscow, Paris
Bug on loop lines (in Venezia) and a few
other small errors
Release 1.3.4
New cities: Dresden,
Bochum-Gelsenkirchen, Essen, Mülheim-Oberhausen (new
repartition for the Rhein-Ruhr)
Improved networks: Berlin,
Copenhagen, London, Madrid, Miami (new
lines: MetroMover & Tri-Rail), München,
Paris, Stockholm (extension on June 1st), Sydney,
Washington
Error in results scrolling
Release 1.3.3
New cities: Hiroshima, Jacksonville,
the complete Rhein-Rhur area (Dortmund,
Duisburg, Düsseldorf, Krefeld
and cities in between) thanks to Thomas Demmig, Venezia
(and its "vaporettos")
Improved networks: Atlanta, Berlin,
Grenoble, London, Madrid, Montreal
(suburban trains), Paris (extended version)
The dutch version of Métro (thanks to
Bernard Vander Beken)
A little bug on the "back"
feature
The complete german guide (I mixed things
up in the previous release)
Release 1.3.2
New city: Magedeburg
(with "interesting places"), thanks to
Alexander Schinner
Improved networks: Berlin
("interesting places"), Buenos Aires,
Frankfurt, London, Madrid
("interesting places"), Mexico, Paris
(extended)
A crashing bug on circle lines
(especially London) has been eradicated
The "Back" button switches the
"From" and "To" fields
The program can now differentiate
"long" and "short" connections
(presently used in Madrid)
The shortcuts to the menus are now
localized (still needs some adjustments)
Release 1.3.1
New city : Orléans
(for a future streetcar line)
Improved networks : Buenos Aires,
Brussels (french version), Grenoble, Paris
(extended version with complete suburban railway network)
Option to reset the current time with the
"Clear" button
Option to mark temporarily closed
lines (work in progress)
Release 1.3.0
Improved networks : Barcelona,
Boston, Bremen ("places of
interest", operating hours, night buses, ...),
Chicago, Hong-Kong (big-5 chinese version), London,
Montreal, New York, Oslo (operating
hours), Paris, Santiago, Stockholm
(trams), Tokyo, Washington
Change in time management (more
user-friendly) and feedback on the lines list (for closed
lines)
Slight improvement on the calculations
Release 1.2.10
Improved networks : Barcelona, Chicago
(operating hours), Hong-Kong, London
("places of interest"), Mexico, Novosibirsk,
Paris, Stockholm, Toronto ("places
of interest")
Regression on operating hours management
Minor corrections on the portuguese
version
Release 1.2.9
New "city":
Rhein-Neckar (contains Mannheim, Ludwigshafen,
Heidelberg)
Improved networks: Chicago ("places
of interest"), Mexico (new line), Oslo, Paris
Speed improvement: calculation up to 20%
faster than the previous release!
City information access from the
"networks" dialog
Bug on the "places of interest"
Journey times displayed before the
instructions (along with the "statistics")
German user's guide (thanks to Alexander
Schinner)
Release 1.2.8
New city: Ljubljana (bus
lines)
Improved networks: Bangkok, Hannover
("places of interest"), Istambul, Osaka (major
update), Paris, San Francisco
Access to the database information from
the "Networks" dialog
Error corrected on one connection in Paris
Compatibility with LeftHack
(work in progress)
Release 1.2.7
New city: Hannover
Improved network: Tokyo
Chinese (big5) version of
the program
Release 1.2.6
Improved networks: Buenos Aires,
Copenhagen, London (error on DLR lines), New York (B
lines completed, time adjustments), Oslo, Singapore, Stuttgart
(S-Bahn added)
Incompatibility between the Montreal &
Monterrey databases corrected
Release 1.2.5
New city: Bremen
Revised networks: Buenos Aires,
Copenhagen, Hambourg (interesting
places), Prag, Tokyo
Improvement on the journey times
computation (not yet finished)
The first city in chinese (Taipei)
Comments and credits on the cities:
"tap" on the window title (not yet complete)
Release 1.2.4
Revised networks: Nürnberg,, München
(interesting places), Hamburg, San Francisco (CalTrain),
Washington/Baltimore, London, Copenhagen
A small bug corrected on the program
Release 1.2.3
New cities (again !):
Calgary, Manchester & Grenoble (this one is a bus
network, in test)
Revised networks: Frankfurt, München, Nürnberg
(much improved), New York, Chicago, Tokyo,
Washington/Baltimore, London
Travel times adjusted in London
"Places of interest" in
Washington/Baltimore
Release 1.2.2
New cities (that makes a total of
120 !): Birmingham, Lausanne, Rouen,
Antwerpen
Revised networks: Barcelona, Chicago
(major update), London, New York, Nürnberg, Oslo (in
norwegian), Roma (new stations), Taipei, Warsaw
Annoying bug corrected on Paris &
Boston (inconsistent behaviour with OrlyVal line in Paris
& Mattapan line in Boston)
Compatibility with J-OSIII: replacement of
"-" by spaces in the international version of
the databases ("en" directory)
Release 1.2.1 (first in 2000!)
Revised networks: Taegu (international
& korean version), Boston (interesting places),
Osaka, Roma, Taipei, Paris, London, Budapest
Release 1.2.0
A new feature (now available on Paris
network) named "interesting places": the
program gives you directions to go to major tourist
attractions in the city. You don't have to know the
nearest subway station anymore!
The new swedish version of the
software
Revised networks: Singapore, Madrid,
Berlin, New York, Saint Petersbourg (russian version),
Chicago, Seoul (korean version)
Correction of some little bugs (on circle
lines and branches)
One big bug is now corrected (it
crashed the Pilot the 14th time you started the program);
sorry for all who experienced this problem
Release 1.1.3
The new italian version of the software!
New cities: Sydney and Bangkok
Revised networks: Madrid, Moscou, Köln,
Milano, München, London
Russian databases can now be used in
conjunction with their international versions
Release 1.1.2
Regression on circle lines and one-way
branches corrected
Changes in the database format (for future
evolutions)
Database names changed (to avoid conflicts
with other programs)
Confirmation dialog added when deleting a
database
Error message when selecting a station
closed at the chosen time
Alphabetic sort of the cities in the
"Network" options
IR-beam transfer of databases (alpha-test)
Revised networks: Frankfurt, Tokyo,
Stockholm, São Paulo, Valencia
Release 1.1.1
Some clean-up in the user interface and in
the program
A version of the databases without accents
or non-ASCII characters (for asian or russian Pilots)
Revised networks: New York, Stockholm,
Washington, Tokyo, Kharkov, Madrid, Moscou, Saint
Petersbourg, Chicago, Helsinki
Added Karlsruhe
streetcars (I "forgot" to release it quite some
time ago, sorry!)
Release 1.1.0
GUI change for timing management
(suppressed menu, added button row)
New "Clear" button
Line list widened
Circular line regression corrected
Revised networks : London (line
extensions and timing management), Hamburg, Köln, Tokyo
(new lines), Nürnberg, Wien, Seoul, lines), Nürnberg,
Wien, Seoul, Baltimore/Washington.