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Cooperative community open-source fork of Organic Maps, an offline privacy-respecting not-for-profit OpenStreetMap GPS app for your phone.

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Public Transport Options (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 4 weeks ago by belastend@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/CoMaps@sopuli.xyz

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I love OSM Navigators and I try to use them as often as possible. The main thing preventing me from using them exclusively is the way they handle public transport. Currently, CoMaps only shows one possible connection, without any timetables or alternatives. I can't click on the banner showing the connection, I can't swipe to find more connections.

Am I doing something wrong?

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[–] 2xsaiko@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Live public transport data (e.g. timetables) doesn’t come from OSM, it comes from the transport providers’ GTFS streams. This has to be implemented separately for each one since they all have their own way of distributing this data.

OSM only stores the static information that doesn’t regularly fluctuate, like stops, lines and the frequency of each line. (details)

There is an issue open on the Organic Maps issue tracker that collected some of the plans for adding live transport info/routing to OM. Not sure if CoMaps plans to do the same.

[–] belastend@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 weeks ago

Ah that's interesting.

Well, I understand that live data would be complicated, I just wish I could see more detail about the one connection the app shows me or even more than just one connection.

[–] Zwiebel@feddit.org 4 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

You can try out Öffi https://f-droid.org/packages/de.schildbach.oeffi/

[–] Staden_@pawb.social 2 points 4 weeks ago

Unfortunately they don't have my city mapped, and their gitlab repo doesn't contain an "issues" tab, so I can't even see if they are working on adding more cities to the app.

[–] belastend@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 weeks ago

Yeah, I am already using öffi, but as far as I know, they don't offer a visual map service. And sometimes, it feels easier to just open up Gmaps to check all of the available connections. Especially, because Öffi doesn't offer the option to check the schedule of a certain train, like Maps does.