Mumbai Navigator with Maps
Mumbai Navigator plans travel within the city of Mumbai using BEST
buses and local trains, and also gives information relating to bus
routes. This is a preliminary release available only through Mozilla
Firefox and Internet Explorer. Screen resolution 1024x768 is recommended.
Basic Features:
- The Maps: There is a full map of Mumbai and a second map
showing a portion of it zoomed. Which portion is zoomed is marked on
the full map using a red square. This square can be dragged using the
mouse. In IE the cursor must be positioned precisely on the border of
the red square while dragging.
- Mouseover to see stop names: If you move your cursor over
the yellow or red squares in the zoomed map, the name of the stop will
pop up.
- Selection through map/menu: Stops/stations can be selected
either through the menu, or by clicking on the yellow/red squares in the zoomed
map. The bus routes through the selected
stop are automatically listed in the white box in the center.
- Textual search through stop/station names: Type the string
and the matching names will show up, and they will also be shown in
the map using red dots.
- Bus route information: If you wish to see the route of a
bus select it in the tiny window marked
"Bus Route Information" (at the
left bottom of the page), and the route will be shown in the maps.
Travel Planning:
Please select the origin and destination of your travel and then click
on "Generate Plan". To select the origin or destination, click in the menu
or in the map, and then click the corresponding "get from map/menu"
button.
The travel plan will include an estimate of the total journey time
including the waiting time. The plan may require you to change buses
or trains, and at each change you may be required to board a bus or
train from the several given.
Generated plan can be seen on the map: Once you select the
origin and destination, clicking the "Generate plan" button will show
the plan. If you click on the segments of the plan (links shown in
blue) you will see the corresponding segments in the map.
Please note..
On the first visit to the site it might take long to
load the maps and related data. However, please
persevere: the data will get cached on your
computer and when you visit the site again it will
start up very fast.
We do not have the geographical coordinates of all bus stops at
present. So these stops will not be shown on the maps. We hope to
update this soon.