Hi everyone!
I do some contributions to OSM and wonder why it’s not building “shortest” possible way (marked as green?
Also, will OSM - OrganicMaps\CoMaps will introduce any time soon ability for public transport routes?
I try OsmAnd+ but didn’t really like it 😥
Upd: Path is diffenetley mapped
Thanks
P.S. The BENCH IS DIFFENETLY NOT ON THE WAY
I don’t think there are any current plans for it. It’s actually really difficult to get right.
OsmAnd kinda cheats and doesn’t have any scheduling information, basically it assumes that the transit comes often enough that it doesn’t matter, which is fine in bigger cities. However, if your bus comes only twice a day it will be an issue.
There’s an open-source app for public transit called Bimba. It is a bit janky, and it requires you to be online for proper routing, but it does work for many cities. It still needs a lot of polishing before I’d consider it done, and actually I’d love for it to just become an OsmAnd plugin at some point.
How about Gnome-Maps? Ppl say they works prety well but only on linux
It uses Transitous, the same routing engine as Bimba. So yes, it should work fine if you’re on Linux.
I mean, yeah, but why Organic Maps or CoMaps not take Transitous\Bimba and put it over on existing maps?
I guess because CoMaps/Organic Maps are “offline-first” maps, and transitous requires you to be online.
There’s actually a ticket on CoMaps about this: https://codeberg.org/comaps/comaps/issues/2483
They are considering making a proof of concept that works online, and then putting in some more work to make it work offline too.