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?

  • schnurritoEnglish
    9·
    2 days ago

    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are out of scope of OSM, there is no good way to enter them, they raise copyright concerns, they would quickly be outdated.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.

        • balsoft@lemmy.mlEnglish
          2·
          1 day ago

          The effect is similar. It allows OSM-based software to easily pull in timetables from operators.

      • schnurritoEnglish
        1·
        1 day ago

        What you linked to describes how to enter identifiers that can help integrate OSM with public transport timetables. It’s true that OSM can have such identifiers; but not the full timetables themselves, those still need to be stored somewhere else.