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[–] TechLich@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I want to like this, but because there's no GTFS/public transport timetables, it makes it kinda impossible to use it to get around cities that publish their transport data.

PT is the one thing I'm still stuck on Google maps for. I REALLY want an open source alternative.

[–] EngineerGaming@retrolemmy.com 2 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

The comments below say "local transit app", but I don't get it - those could be proprietary and pretty invasive. So instead, I use the "undesired" maps in the browser. Both for when public transit arrives and for more up-to-date information on businesses.

[–] TechLich@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

Yeah, it's a shame because some of those OSM-based ones are really close to being perfect. It just seems like it's really difficult for the open source devs to reconcile OSM data with GTFS and timetables for some reason.

Often the "local app" is basically a proprietary wrapper around Google maps.

[–] hard_zero1@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 6 days ago

For public transit routing, I usually use the app of the local provider. But especially (not only) for Germany, Öffi is an open source alternative for them, that uses their APIs, I think.

[–] Echolynx@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Magic Earth is spotty on public transit, but it does have it, at least. And it is based on OSM. I usually just use my local transit app for accurate timetables, anyway.