As more and more taxi companies sign up to use Taximap it’s becoming apparent that virtually each and every one has a slightly different pricing model. Providing accurate journey price quotations for every pricing structure is something we’d love to achieve, but this will come at a price of its own: Complexity.
With each update the interface is becoming more complex and we’re desperate to avoid the situation where it becomes unusable. With this in mind we thought it timely to remind our readers of our goals – what Taximap is for and what we’re trying to achieve.
With Taximap on your website you’re providing your customers with an innovative new tool that provides a competitive advantage over your rivals.
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It seems we’re coming to that awkward stage in development where a whole bunch of little things are popping up that seem important but, unless we’re careful, would over complicate the system…. Read more…
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…(almost)
Developing taximap.co.uk primarily at night and weekends has required a fairly rigid work ethic. My aim has been to complete one update per session from my development list. At the moment our main goal is to produce a useable taxi booking and price estimate system so mini cab companies can start to test the site and, I’m pleased to announce, we’re pretty much there!
As it stands the process works like this: Read more…