Métro: history
Contents
Version
Registration
Installation
User Guide
Strange behaviours
How it works
Acknowledgements
History
Many thanks to:
- Francisco J. Sánchez for the spanish
translation;
- Alexander Schinner for the german
translation (including the user's guide + Magdeburg);
- Alex Savin for the russian translation
(including Moscow, St Petersbourg & Nijni-Novgorod);
- Paolo Martino for the italian
translation (and corrections on the Milano map);
- Sven Bring for the swedish translation
(among other contributions);
- Eric Chen & Daniel Lin for the
chinese (big5) translation;
- Bernard Vander Beken for the dutch
translation;
- Robert Schwandl for his web site "MetroPla.Net";
- Osamu Abe for his home page "Subways of
the World";
- Robert Reynolds for the "Subway
Page";
- Dmitry Zinoviev for his map
directory;
- Sven Brunner (for Karlsruhe
"S-Bahn" network);
- J. Leung (for the Hong-Kong network);
- Lutz Pietschker (for Berlin
"S-bahn" lines);
- Yann Pilpré (for Nantes streetcar
network);
- Wolfgang Jehle (for the
"S-Bahn" in Nürnberg);
- Jérôme Euzenat (for the Grenoble bus
network);
- Hervé Mariage (for the Grenoble
"interesting places");
- Gerhard Sorg (for his work on München,
particularly the"interesting places");
- Jeffrey Kaplan (for his work on Boston
and its "interesting places");
- Jonathan Tannenwald (for his help on
Washington/Baltimore and its "interesting
places");
- Eric Li (for San Francisco CalTrain
& Hong-Kong errors);
- Wolfgang Scheele (for the Bremen network
and the "interesting places" in Hambourg);
- Alex May (for the Stuttgart S-Bahn
network);
- Joerg Eckert (for the Hannover network);
- Lojze Primoz Pecan (for the Ljubljana
bus network);
- Thomas Demmig (for the Rhein-Neckar and
Rhein-Ruhr: Dortmund, Duisbourg, Düsseldorf, Krefeld);
- Alan Leung (for the chinese version of
the Hong-Kong network);
- Pierre You ( for the new Orléans
streetcar);
- M. Forrest Dysart Oliphant (for the
Hiroshima network);
- Christian Eckert (for the Darmstadt
network and part of Frankfurt);
- Marcel Klaetsch (for the Dresden
network);
- Goetz van Rissenbeck (for the Zürich
network);
- Daniel Pontreau (for the suburban lines
in Paris, among other things)
- All the users who helped me correct bugs:
Christoph Munkelt
(Hong-Kong)
Cheung Koon Tung, Kent (Hong-Kong)
Marielle Gouton (Lyon)
Ryan Bayne (Toronto)
Charlie Kunz (bug with one-line
networks)
Francisco J. Sánchez (Madrid)
Andrew G. Malis (Boston)
Rémi Chéno (Paris)
Benoît Pupin (Paris)
Dan Laba (Bucarest)
R J Walsh (London)
Yann Pilpré (Madrid)
Konstantin Articus (Hamburg)
Dmitri V. Trembovetski (St Petersbourg
and beta-testing on the russian version)
Giovanni Tradardi (Madrid)
Min-Kwon Kim (Seoul)
David Knight (London)
Ludwich (München)
Axel Hartmann (Köln)
Richard (San Francisco and english
translation)
Alexander Nader (Wien)
Sven Bring (Stockholm)
Hymie! (Baltimore)
Chusung Bang (Seoul)
Robert Cherry (London line extensions)
Helmut Schober (Wien, München)
Walter Säckl (Nürnberg)
Matt Bishop (London timing information)
David Williams (Washington DC)
Haruto Hitose (Great work in Tokyo)
Loren Ryter (New York)
Jaroslav Tacheci (Prague)
Jérôme Feuillade (error on one-way
branches)
Andre Paiva (São Paulo)
Satish Joshi (error on circle lines,
Tokyo)
André Jonsson, Hamid Torabi,
Lehnhoff Jürgen (database name
conflicts)
Vladimir Penzin (Moscow)
Axel Wupper (Köln - Bonn)
Jeffrey Barrie (little problem with
russian networks)
Juan Servera (Barcelona)
Robin Gould (London)
Alvin Tang (Singapore)
Nico Knapp (Madrid, Hannover)
Carson Gaspar (New York)
Vladimir Gordeyev (Saint Petersbourg)
Wity Ganda (big crashing bug in release
1.1.3)
Jong-Mok Lee (Taegu, international &
korean)
Stefano Cingoli (Roma extensions)
Pres Nevins (Osaka)
Fabian Meyer (London)
Kevin Cheng & Eric Chen (Taipei)
Simon Géza (Budapest)
Serge Kasbi (Paris)
JC Choulot (Paris)
Tim Joseph (London)
Kristian M Zoerhoff (Chicago, and it was
not easy!)
Jacek Pietruczanis (Warsaw)
Hubert Corchia (Paris)
André Seignon & Alain Parachout
(bug on OrlyVal line in Paris)
Gerard A. Rose (New York)
Morten Y. Nilsen (Oslo)
Joerg Shneider (Frankfurt)
Morgan O'Donovan (London)
Andreas Gröhn (New York)
Sunny Au (London)
James M. Hildreth (Washington/Baltimore)
Ben Madison (Tokyo)
Wolfgang Scheele (Hamburg and its
interesting places)
Richard Windle (London)
Peter Sørensen (Copenhagen)
Diego Kuperman (Buenos Aires)
Hanus Adler (Prag)
Francisco J. Herrero (Buenos Aires)
Steve Smythe (London)
Tom Khan (New York)
Frank Musarra (New York)
Andrew Tan (Singapore)
Alexander Pogede (Tokyo)
Pai Nay (Bangkok)
Yassar Carasso (Istambul)
Chay Benett (Osaka)
Joe Carpenter (San Francisco)
Frank Schimmoller (bug on the
"places of interest")
Truls Thirud (Oslo)
Manuel Bustillo (Mexico)
Paul Hay (Barcelona)
JM Lerga (Barcelona)
Ivan Jerônimo (corrections in
portuguese version)
Darrin Roush (Novosibirsk)
Mats Hjalmarsson (Stockholm)
Fernando Calderón (Mexico)
John Wood (London "places of
interest")
Elliot Salmons (Toronto "places of
interest")
Ferran Figueirola (Barcelona)
Gerald Fabiano (Boston)
Pierre Lagrange (Montreal)
Adrian Neuhauser (Santiago)
Bruse LF Persson (Stockholm)
Richard Goldberg (Washington)
Peter J Flathmann ("places of
interest" in Bremen)
Gabriel Dandretta (Buenos Aires)
Daniel Adams (Brussels)
David Benett (bug on loop lines)
José Klingbeil (Paris)
Joe Odukoya (Paris)
Eduardo Paradinas ("places of
interest" in Madrid, and more)
Damian Vila (Buenos Aires)
Rainer Zenz ("places of
interest" in Berlin and more)
Torsten Kistowski (Frankfurt)
John L. Woodard (Atlanta)
Benoît Hébert (Montréal)
Martin Rath (Paris)
Roman Frillarte (Miami & Washington)
Tony Green (London)
Magnus Ågren (Stockholm)
Danny Bielik (Sydney)
Bo Dines Larsen (Copenhagen)
Oliver C. Spauka (Berlin)
Leo Moll (Düsseldorf)
Dmitry
Zharnikov (Moscow)
Robert Löhning (Berlin)
Tatjana Schmied (Frankfurt)
Andrea Lawendel (Milano)
François C (Nantes)
Brian Houlahan (Seoul)
Michael Voegeli (Zürich)
Stephen Page (London)
- All the people who use this software and sent me a
message...
Métro is the result of an association between Patrice Bernard
(who makes the program and its evolutions) and Frank Van
Caenegem (who enters, checks and corrects the subway
network data). But Métro would not be much without all those who
contributed to make this soft as it is today (see list above).
And to make it even better and more complete, we still
need your help! If you find an error or if you have an
idea for a new feature, just let us know. But you can do better
(can't you?): if you want new lines in a database or even an
entirely new network, send us the data, we'll make the database
and distribute it. Basically, you just have to give a text list
of the lines with all their stations ordered.
A few suggestions : S-Bahn lines in
Germany and Swiss, suburban trains in NYC (if it works with the
soft), ..., interesting sites in any city (tourism or business),
subway operating times, ...
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,
Baltimore/Washington.
To come
- An optional full text search (for
stations)
- Personalized stations ("home",
"office", ...)
- Streetcars in Wien, ...
- Other specific features in London &
other networks
- Express trains
- Swedish, korean, chinese & japanese
versions
- Database editing tool
- ...
And what won't come (except if I change my
mind), please do not insist
- Subway maps (graphical representation):
it's too much work for a very questionable result on a
tiny Pilot screen.