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Re:Bing Maps Streetside Imagery Now Integrated into OpenStre... by gasull on Friday June 15, 2018 @02:52AM (#17317954)
Is there a good Android app using OSM that will give me public transportation directions in the main cities of the world?

Until them I'm stuck with Google Maps.

Re:Bing Maps Streetside Imagery Now Integrated into OpenStre... by Brakenshire on Friday June 15, 2018 @04:33AM (#17318327)
Moovit uses OpenStreetMap to generate its map tiles, Citymapper uses it for its walking and perhaps cycling directions. OSMAnd has quite good tools for visualising public transport routes, for instance you can plot subway routes on top of the street map, and you can select bus stops, see the buses stopping there, then select the route and see its full path and all stops mapped.
Re:Bing Maps Streetside Imagery Now Integrated into OpenStre... by trystero on Friday June 15, 2018 @04:49AM (#17318383)
Transportr is an alternative, but it's still a long way to go to compete with Google Maps, Citymapper and the like.

https://transportr.grobox.de/

Re:Bing Maps Streetside Imagery Now Integrated into OpenStre... by Piskvorrr on Friday June 15, 2018 @10:44AM (#17320099)
I think Maps.Me did something in that direction - but well, the quality of the underlying data varies wildly. Google can (and IMHO does) periodically pay for licensing the transport data, OSM doesn't do that (for cost and license compatibility, amongst other things). Not all PT authorities are amenable to open data :(
Re:Bing Maps Streetside Imagery Now Integrated into OpenStre... by PkBuzios on Friday June 15, 2018 @06:24PM (#17324159)
They are starting. You can get routing for Underground in some cities. But if you check OSM there is a lot of data. I think that all what is missing is a algorithm to make the routing.
Re:Bing Maps Streetside Imagery Now Integrated into OpenStre... by Piskvorrr on Saturday June 16, 2018 @10:42AM (#17327594)
As an OSM contributor, I beg to differ. "Just an algorithm" needs to take into account all the different ways in which the data is input, guess at possible transfers (again, stops might be mapped, but are they reachable from each other?), and that's before we get to the issue of stale data (infrastructure might be mapped, but the line numbering and routing changes at a moment's notice).

So yeah, it looks easy at first glance.