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[โ€“] jjpamsterdam 8 points 3 hours ago

OSM is a great project. It's the basis for a lot of different tools and as such really needs to continue to be independent from American tech bros.

[โ€“] les_dennis@lemmy.wtf 6 points 3 hours ago
[โ€“] Wimster@lemmy.wtf 9 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

That is great. Now include satelite images too please.

[โ€“] intelisense@lemm.ee 10 points 3 hours ago (3 children)

I'm more interested in decent travel planning for public transport.

[โ€“] atro_city@fedia.io 4 points 2 hours ago (3 children)

Public offices would have to work with OSM. Right now they have exclusive deals with Google and actively publish their stuff to Google. Public offices should be publishing to OSM instead, but their citizens don't give a fuck.

[โ€“] albert180@piefed.social 2 points 59 minutes ago* (last edited 57 minutes ago)

Wrong. Most of them publish the data open source and/or provide an open trip planner API.

But OSM doesn't want this data as they are a map, and support only rudimentary frequency and line numbers.

You would need another project for this kind of service

[โ€“] j4yt33 2 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

In Germany some public transport networks have their own apps, Maps always used to be the worst option to plan public transport in Berlin for example. So it should be possible, in theory

[โ€“] atro_city@fedia.io 1 points 58 minutes ago

People living in Berlin and using opensource should request their public transport authorities to share the data with openstreet maps. I bet public transport schedules can be embedded into it.

If you live in Germany, @ them somewhere or send them an email. The more people do it, the more they'll find it important. If you are in a Berlin community, ask them to join in. A single @ or email won't convince them, but it's a start.

[โ€“] albert180@piefed.social 2 points 58 minutes ago

In Germany DB Navigator is always better than Google Maps for public transport

[โ€“] intelisense@lemm.ee 1 points 1 hour ago

Well, that doesn't even sound like it would cost anything.

[โ€“] huppakee@lemm.ee 1 points 1 hour ago

This would definitely be doable but only if public transport companies publish their data because I don't see this happening if it has to be imported manually

[โ€“] bettertecheu@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

I get reasonable results from Citymapper and Mapy. HERE doesn't seem to know that buses exist.

https://better-tech.eu/search/article/maps/

[โ€“] huppakee@lemm.ee 2 points 1 hour ago

I'm in the Netherlands and had better results from HERE than from Mapy.

I guess it's worth trying multiple apps for anyone who wants to ditch Google. We also have a local company (9292) who's whole business is providing public transport information, so you might not even need a map app for this.