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NEW! DrTaxi-Runs in third dimension!
Click here for more information! General Information
Dr.Taxi was developed first in 1996/1997 by the Berlin Taxi-Association TVB and me, Stephan B e r n d t , a former taxi driver, who had the idea of this project. Since 1997 Dr.Taxi has been used by students -, knowledge schools - and examiners computers in Berlin. The real idea is an easy to operate program to study with and having more fun with studying. The software is easy to operate. You can start learning right away and you don’t need to read a thick manual before you use Dr.Taxi. You don't need special system system requirements. The soul of Dr.Taxi consists of two things: 1. A free scaleable road map that supports you at (almost) all levels of the program. ("Vector" means: It isn't restricted to a certain number of scales like you might use with multi map.) 2. The studying process is saved (almost) automatically. The software always knows, what you were studying and how much of the program you understood and how much you didn't. So it is very easy to concentrate on what you don't know the most, and you have a very detailed control over your studying process. |
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MAIN PAGE Here you can see the main page of Dr.Taxi London .
You see the 7 levels in the middle:
2. streets 3. Thames Crossings 4. places 6. runs
other aspects:
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Postcode Areas Because the London knowledge is so detailed, it will assist you to know the London postcodes. Dr.Taxi will help with the studying of these. Therefore Dr.Taxi has a level where you have to find the right postcode area (PCA) on the map and those postcode areas next to it. The image on the right side is a sample of the program you would use at this level.
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Postcode Areas This
image shows the level, where you have to find all those postcode areas
(PCA). First
you have to find the PCA on the map (here N10). Then you move to the
right list and find those PCAs next to N10. Whenever you make a mistake, the software registers it. (see below).
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POINTS OF INTEREST At this level the program first just shows the name of a point of interest on top. Then you have to think over, where it's position is, in which postcode area. (In this special case not that much difficult, but I did like that photo ...) Then you press a button, and just the postcode area is shown on the big map. (here a little hard to see because the image is not in original size. See fine blue line in the middle of the big map. (SE1 & E1) (Normal points of interest are in only one postcode area)) Another button pressed - and the position on the big map gets visible (yellow dot), plus the small map on the right appears showing more details of the surrounding. Finally the address appears and gets marked in the small map. |
Another button pressed - and a photo appears (if available). And of cause you can zoom in on the photo. (By the way - we only have few aerial photos in the program. So unfortunately you won't see many of those beautiful sights.) The Map The
maps you can see here do not contain all streets in London, but only
those that are needed for learning the I.80 runs - plus several points
of interests and their addresses (streets). When you don't recognize that part of the map, you press a certain button and the program will recognize, that you did not know that aspect. |
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RUNS At this level you are learning complete Blue Book Runs. The runs are show street by street (by pressing a button) . The streets/roads will be shown on the map and also by a list.This list will also show, how you have to turn from one street to another
(This
looks a little better in reality. This is just 75% of the original
size. So some details got lost.) >
You always have to think over,
if you know the next street or place. >
Press a button. >
See the result . >
Were you wrong? > Then tell the software: Press
a button! ( M by key or mouse on red M on the right below)
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RUNS R = turn right L = turn left BR = bear right BL = bear left = = straight (blue-white stripes) In some areas Dr.Taxi is also checking, why you have to take a route, that is not in line - here this is because of one way streets. See here the green arrows ( ... sorry: traces of green arrows) symbolizing one way sections on Tooley Street and Queen Elizabeth Street.
Dark Map Perhaps you would like to have a brighter map. Then you can change the design. But the longer you will sit in front of your screen, the more you will like this ..... we think. |
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Learning Protocols (Asking for Record) |
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Asking for Protocol As I wrote above the learning protocols are a very important element of Dr.Taxi. While studying you are marking those elements, that you didn't know - or the software does it in some cases automatically. Then - at the end of the levels the software will ask, if you want to save what you didn't know, and if you wish to repeat it.
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Level of Difficulty As
soon, as there are such protocols for a certain level, next time you enter
this level, you will see a window like on the right side. That
black pyramid symbolizes the knowledge elements on the entered level
according to how often you didn't know them. In this case the student was
learning at least 10 times on this level. The
lowest black step or level symbolizes all elements of this level, the
second, what you didn't know one time, the third, what you didn't know two
times, the fourth, what you didn't know three times .... and so on. So the software will replace the need to use card files. Of cause we don't know, if you have used cards before, but we are quite sure, that you would go crazy even writing then out.
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System Requirements Microsoft Windows Vista, XP, 2000, NT, ME, 98 64 MB RAM 120 MB space on hard disk 800*600 16 bit graphics
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Prices
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I.80 Runs Version £ 50.00
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II.80 Runs Version £ 30.00 |
III.80 Runs Version £ 30.00 |
IV.80 Runs Version £ 30.00 |
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Knowledge data of the I.80, II.80, III.80 and IV.80 Runs Version Dr.Taxi-London has 2 data adjustments:
So you can learn a lot more with this program, than you have to learn just for the I.80 runs. / See also below "further functions".
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Knowledge data updates The update is always the follow up version. For example if you bought the I.80 runs version, in between changed data will be updated in the II.80 runs version. Apart from that we will publish changes in this homepage. Right now we are working on it, but this will take still a little while.
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Further Functions The
functions that have been mentioned so far are needed for learning the
first 80 runs. But in the end there is a lot more to learn. For
example: Where is which street? Which streets I come to at the end of
a certain street? In
the end it makes a very big difference, if you are just learning fixed
runs, or if you have to be able to know the run from any start to any
goal. For these things - and other purposes have a look at the further functions.
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