I’ve spent a while looking at this point and all the options I’ve tried so far don’t work very well. I’m looking for an app, website or desktop program that has the ability to navigate using public transport. At the moment the best thing I’ve found is osmand but sometimes it just doesn’t work, it will just spend ages loading without ever finishing (I’ve let it load for at least 10 minutes) Also comaps/organic maps can only do short distances or it just crashes out saying there is no route available.
Does anyone have any good options or is osm still only have very primitive public transport offerings?
I use https://f-droid.org/packages/xyz.apiote.bimba.czwek . It uses GTFS data from transit operators and is pretty good
Transportr is solid when I have tried it.
@ace_garp @pineapple
Looks like #Transportr works very smooth. I will try it in real world. #coMaps and #OsmAnd on the other hand seam to not support public transport routing in #Switzerland at all.
This depends on which area you want to navigate in, how well OSM is maintained there, and on the interface situation between the providers of public transport and the open internet. I think the latter is the biggest problem. Is the transport data available and available in a stable format that OSM can tap into? And the answer is most likely no. The Googles and the Apples have teams that take care of their maps offering and that work through the patchwork of APIs and formats to come up with not totally bad solutions to this mess. Unpaid volunteers will have a harder time getting to the same level. So OSM is not the way to go here - most likely. I’m sure islands of great data exist.
What would suggest/what do you use? I live in australia btw.
Sorry, can’t help you there because I don’t have a clue. I’m in Japan and landed on the Yahoo Japan app because in my experience they do better than the G’s and A’s here locally.
Navigating on public transport inherently requires full data on public transport timetables.
Public transport timetables are out of scope of OSM, there is no good way to enter them, they raise copyright concerns, they would quickly be outdated. So OSM is just the wrong tool for the job…
I use an app called “Öffi” https://f-droid.org/packages/de.schildbach.oeffi for calculating routes on public transport. It queries the open APIs of public transport networks. I don’t know whether it supports the one you need, but e.g. in Germany and Austria it is very usable.
Public transport timetables are out of scope of OSM, there is no good way to enter them, they raise copyright concerns, they would quickly be outdated. So OSM is just the wrong tool for the job…
This is not true. See https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/GTFS#Tags
@balsoft
That describes her w to link to a timetable, not how to include the timetable within OSM.The effect is similar. It allows OSM-based software to easily pull in timetables from operators.
