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@amyisard sometimes I wonder if it's possible to have a community crowdsourced open source Citymapper with public transport APIs hooked up, maybe built on CoMaps/OSM?
I love Citymapper and it's actually quite scarily accurate (if it says I'm late, I'm very much most likely late), but I always hesitate using maps apps in general due to privacy, but the problem is I'm a shut-in (by design of a tech nerd) and have been growing up so I never know how to go anywhere ever and have to resort to it anyway because CoMaps doesn't really do public transport in SG.
@jj Access to information makes this very very hard outside a big company, I've tried to get access to the realtime metro apis for Melbourne (to make a screen that told me when to leave lol) and never went through with it because of the shear amount of paperwork involved in getting a single JWT...
@monoxane @jj @amyisard @arianvp @noodlemaz You don’t need real time. It’s not as if we have any real time data in Berlin for anything.
Also the algorithms by now are more than tractable and the volumes of data that you’re talking about quite modest.
@alper @monoxane https://datamall.lta.gov.sg/content/datamall/en/dynamic-data.html
We do in SG :)
Pretty sure that's what Citymapper uses anyway, either this or some other API (never dug around enough to check yet), but point is they are available here.
@deathkitten @ainmosni @arianvp Why do you need a sidewalk? Sincere question.
That's the beauty of walking. A sidewalk is not necessary.
(Other than highways, better to avoid highways.)
Walking is the freedom to go where you want to go without needing 'infrastructure'.
@penpencilbrush @deathkitten @arianvp It's the same thing with not having good bicycle infra. Sure, bikes can share the road with cars, but many people will not feel safe and will opt to take the car. But have protected bike paths, and all of a sudden more people will opt to leave the car home.
And we have similar patterns with public transit. If the transit goes irregularly, gets stuck in traffic, and has stops in places that are not practical or make people feel vulnerable, people will keep on using cars.
@ainmosni @deathkitten @arianvp It never occurred to me. All my corporate life, I put on sneakers or very comfortable shoes with my suit and walked, under bridges, on bridges, grass, dirt, sidewalk, whatever.
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With you on the public transportation and bike lanes. Build them (frequent, efficient and safe) and they will come.
@penpencilbrush @deathkitten @arianvp Yeah, fair, in the end it all comes down on the same thing, some people will walk/bike no matter what, but every time we get rid of a barrier, the group of pedestrians and cyclists will grow.
Like, I walk, cycle, or take transit everywhere, and because of the cities I've lived in, I never had the need to even get a drivers license. But when I visited North America, I mostly felt very dependent on friends to get around, as the non-car infrastructure was barren, and everything was built on a scale that assumed you would just drive.
@penpencilbrush @deathkitten @ainmosni @arianvp
I use a wheelchair and I like to go places too.
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@ainmosni @arianvp Is that why it's impossible to find a route to a bar I regularly catch a tram to by just walking to the tram stop!?
It also explains why only some routes are asymmetric, the northward side of some stops is further away than the southward side of the stop so you can only connect one way?!
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@davepotts Not that I'm aware of, it's not a feature that I need too often so I haven't really looked into it much. This is what I found with a quick search: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Traffic_data
There are other map apps that use OSM data, so maybe one of those has a traffic feature? It's going to really depend on your location, though.
It might be worth seeing what your local government provides of its own accord and then see if anyone's stuck that in an app form yet.
@StarkRG @davepotts
I mostly use CoMaps but I’ve been using the Here We Go app in preference to google maps for times when I need to take traffic into account. It also does Public Transport routes. Netherlands based company I think. Uses open street maps. Gets updates much more frequently than it used to.
@khleedril
You're right so it does 🙂
I was sure that it used to use OSM data but I see no mention of that now. Of course I might have confused it with one of the other slew of navigation maps that I've tried and then dropped - usually when they moved to an expensive subscription model.
@StarkRG @arianvp I also stopped using Google everything about two years ago; the specific enshittification of maps is that they are no longer reliable at finding the best routes: most times I sail right through dark red routes when all the lemmings following Maps go around the houses.
I *really* wish they hadn't gotten and then fucked up Waze.
@arianvp on the off-chance you haven't seen this, you may want to have a look at something like @transitous
For example, here is Berlin Bösebrücke to Wansee
https://api.transitous.org/?time=2026-04-11T12%3A21%3A00.000Z&fromPlace=52.5545508%2C13.4014075&toPlace=52.4211482%2C13.1589374&withFares=true&fastestDirectFactor=1.5&joinInterlinedLegs=false&maxMatchingDistance=250&fromName=B%C3%B6sebr%C3%BCcke&toName=Wannsee
For the longest time I wished Google maps would understand that some destinations are extended objects, like, it doesn't matter which side of this area you enter because you're there once you get there. But it only knew about points.
Now they seem to have added extended targets, but they still only have one "point" that is the target, so no matter where in the target you're headed to ut always sends you to the same gate or entrance. Which is worse because now you can't override them.
It will do that. I deliberately set a landmark at the east most parking entrance of the building. It still navigated me to the southern entrance, because that is apparently where it believes there is an entrance to that block. And then its plotted route included internal directions inside the parking section to the eastern entrance.
@arianvp Just use a map, not a shopping guide.
@arianvp Apple Maps has done this thing for a while where, if you set the default mode of transport to ‘walking’, over a certain distance (5km I think) it’ll ignore you and assume you want to drive.
I sort of understand the decision to ignore the default: it’s probably true that I’m not going to walk 10km for a random errand. (If I am going to walk that far it’s an intentional choice.) But you can’t configure the fallback. Even if somewhere is too far to conveniently walk, that doesn’t mean driving is an option.
Because I had most recently used it for crossing the city, google maps recently offerred me walking directions from Boston to Montreal. (I'm a fast walker but no.)
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