Applications From here Add Route Information and Travel Fares and Busway Route Search

Local directory app From here recently upgraded its ability to guide users in exploring the city. Through the latest version released with version 2.3.3 on the App Store (read also: Darisini application for Android version has been withdrawn), Darisini now has the Trans Jakarta and Trans Jogja Busway routes as one of the user's transportation route search options.

For the people of Jakarta and Yogyakarta, Busway has indeed become one of the means of mass transportation that plays a vital role. Its routes that have expanded and reach many points of location for public destinations make the presence of a new feature of the application that makes it easy to use developed by local developer, Kakilangit This is clearly very helpful for users in finding routes to their destination locations with Busway.

To access the Busway route feature, users simply enter into the category options Transportation displayed on the front page or set the display of sub categories that can be activated via the settings menu. Once logged in, users can search for various choices of Busway stop routes that can be curated based on search keyword as well as search for the nearest location from the user's position.

The information presented is quite complete and accurate. In addition to being able to find the nearest Busway stop, this new feature also provides information on the route of the bus stop that is displayed in detail complete with corridor numbers and colors that make it easier for users to match routes. In addition, interestingly, information and estimated travel fares are also displayed in detail. The presence of this function is certainly very useful for foreign or local tourists who are not familiar with Busway transportation.

To support this ability, apparently Darisini uses website services Transportumum.com as a source of information related to Busway corridor routes. This is exactly what he does in displaying KRL route information by retrieving information from the site krl.co.id. Although we haven't had the chance to try it out, the same function should also be performed for users in the city of Yogyakarta in search of the Trans Jogja Busway route.

Overall, the presence of the Busway route feature clearly complements Darisini's increasingly complete service by presenting the entire directory of urban ins and outs, so Darisini is getting stronger in competing with other similar applications such as FillCity and and so on.

On the other hand, the presence of this new feature can also prove that Darisini's development is not stagnant. As we have reported several times, Darisini often only does a few "minor" updates, such as the last time we did redesign for iOS 7 without embedding any of the latest features. Even before Darisini had planned to want develop Augmented Reality features which until now does not appear to have continued its development. Hopefully in future updates this application will be more innovative, practical, and more useful.

[photo illustration: Flickr | Gene Kanai]