Liu Yu at the bus station for passenger duty. (Photo by our correspondent)
the map on the bus Handbook made by Liu Yu. (reporter Zhao Wenzhu photo)
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newspaper reporter Zhao Wenzhu
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"if it can be printed out, it can be distributed free of charge at every bus station, usually in the pocket with the door, where to sit where the car can be found." On the morning of 28, Liu Yu, a "bus fan", came to the newspaper with a bus manual that took only a year of cartography to the press and told the reporter the story behind the bus manual that was not really printed.
[b] makes use of his spare time to make bus brochures, how to take a bus, and how to transfer to [/b]
"this handbook is made when I am normally free, and it takes a year for light graphics." Liu Yu, a native Ji'nan bus fan, stroked the hundreds of print books he had brought to his children like his children.
reporter found that the bus Handbook is divided into four parts. The first two parts are the index charts made according to the commonly used place names, road names and bus stations. The third part is the direction map of the main transfer hub, and the last part is the more than 200 color maps arranged in order for each bus line according to the number.
"Beijing, Shanghai and other places have this special bus guide manual, but Ji'nan does not." Liu Yu said he was doing this handbook to make up for the gap in Ji'nan, so that the people outside could take such a handbook and go anywhere by bus.
"stop sign is not the same name as the station, but the same name and different stations are very common. It's very easy for you to cause travel inconvenience." Careful Liu Yu on the map of this site are particularly marked out, and also marked the traffic jam section, uplink and downlink, free card has invalid, BRT free transfer and so on.
Liu Yu has also created an electronic map and a bus satellite map and a function to "subscribe to this route" on the site. "Once the viewer subscribes to the line, once the line is changed, the website will send the line information to the viewer. The latest e-mail is instantly updated.
[b] was addicted to "bus fan" from the bus. Liu Yu took pictures of each site for [/b]
why to do this handbook, Liu Yu said, in the final analysis, that he was a "bus fan". "When I was a child, I felt like sitting in a bus with a sense of freshness in the unknown direction. I was addicted to sitting and sitting." Liu Yu's addiction has been retained until now. "
" all over the country there are tens of thousands of people like my interest like "bus fans", some of the bus fan, some like to take pictures, and I tend to the route. Liu Yu said that he had run away from all the sites in Ji'nan for many years. "If you ask me where I want to go and how to get there, I can tell it right away." A familiar map can be drawn with a close eye. "
in order to complete the bus manual, Liu Yu went to run several lines and sites several times. "All go to the scene, take the location of the latitude and longitude with the smart phone, and accurately reach the range of ten meters, and go back to calculate the distance between the sites." Liu Yu said that it took him a year to map the light, and each route was marked on the map, including Changqing and Zhangqiu.
[b] more than tens of thousands of homes put on the bus site he wanted to print out the Handbook for free to the public [/b]
Liu Yu added to the "bus fan" forum in 2002 to find a group of like-minded friends, with his own words "to find the organization." In order to let Ji'nan's "bus fans" have their own organization, in 2005, Liu Yu invested in the creation of Ji'nan online bus website.
"the annual maintenance of the optical manager costs more than 10000 yuan." Liu Yu said, "the servers that spend money are always in trouble, unstable, and nothing, only one server and one server, and a server at least a few thousand, and so far has changed seven or eight." Over the past 5 years, Liu Yu has invested about one hundred thousand yuan before and after investing almost all his family property on his own public transport website.
even more frustrating for Liu Yu is that someone else has stolen his name. When a black website was registered last year, a copy of Liu Yu's identity card was embezzled, and Liu Yu's hard - built website was also forced to shut. "It took more than a month to make this matter clear to the police and let the website reopen."
however, people's ignorance and difficulties do not prevent Liu Yu from sticking to his interests. "My biggest wish now is to print out this manual and give it to the public free of charge on the platform."