Comments on: VICROADS’ wasted opportunity http://www.woowoowoo.com/2006/02/17/vicroads-wasted-opportunity/ photos, food, maps & rants Sun, 22 Jan 2012 08:16:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: andrew http://www.woowoowoo.com/2006/02/17/vicroads-wasted-opportunity/comment-page-1/#comment-44 andrew Sat, 18 Feb 2006 05:15:08 +0000 http://www.woowoowoo.com/?p=112#comment-44 Well, to be fair, I did get a prompt response - from a real person! <blockquote> "...we have decided to bring back the old freeway travel time, current road alerts and tow truck allocations sites. You will be able to access these until we have upgraded the new site to be compatible with other browsers. Access to the old sites should be available by close of business Monday 20 February" </blockquote> Browser compatibility and accessibility aside (google maps isn't exactly AAA!) - I still think they have blown a chance to have a really usable, useful and interactive site... bloody shame! Well, to be fair, I did get a prompt response – from a real person!

“…we have decided to bring back the old freeway travel time, current road alerts and tow truck allocations sites. You will be able to access these until we have upgraded the new site to be compatible with other browsers. Access to the old sites should be available by close of business Monday 20 February”

Browser compatibility and accessibility aside (google maps isn’t exactly AAA!) – I still think they have blown a chance to have a really usable, useful and interactive site… bloody shame!

]]> By: thingoid http://www.woowoowoo.com/2006/02/17/vicroads-wasted-opportunity/comment-page-1/#comment-43 thingoid Fri, 17 Feb 2006 09:52:56 +0000 http://www.woowoowoo.com/?p=112#comment-43 They couldn't get their bloody stupid bicycle route maps right, so why would they bother doing anything else well? I love this from their page: "may be viewable in the other browsers by June 2006" - which prompts the question, why didn't they do it properly in the first place? Oh yeah, and when did you last see a serious corporate web site that demanded you use IE? No, I don't think that's too ranty - just don't expect a response any time soon. How do you tend to respond when the boot's on the other foot? They couldn’t get their bloody stupid bicycle route maps right, so why would they bother doing anything else well?

I love this from their page: “may be viewable in the other browsers by June 2006″ – which prompts the question, why didn’t they do it properly in the first place?

Oh yeah, and when did you last see a serious corporate web site that demanded you use IE?

No, I don’t think that’s too ranty – just don’t expect a response any time soon. How do you tend to respond when the boot’s on the other foot?

]]> By: andrew http://www.woowoowoo.com/2006/02/17/vicroads-wasted-opportunity/comment-page-1/#comment-42 andrew Fri, 17 Feb 2006 00:04:13 +0000 http://www.woowoowoo.com/?p=112#comment-42 Google doesn't have the road maps, but VICROADS obviously do - they used them in their lame online app. All that they needed to do was make an overlay. It could have been so beautiful :-( Google doesn’t have the road maps, but VICROADS obviously do – they used them in their lame online app. All that they needed to do was make an overlay. It could have been so beautiful :-(

]]> By: Neil http://www.woowoowoo.com/2006/02/17/vicroads-wasted-opportunity/comment-page-1/#comment-41 Neil Thu, 16 Feb 2006 23:50:24 +0000 http://www.woowoowoo.com/?p=112#comment-41 Google doesnt have mapping ability available to Australia nor does Yahoo!. I do agree that it is stupid for a gov agency to put a website out that is not accessible to everyone. Google doesnt have mapping ability available to Australia nor does Yahoo!. I do agree that it is stupid for a gov agency to put a website out that is not accessible to everyone.

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