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Germany's Sovereign Tech Agency will give โ‚ฌ384,000 to the OpenStreetMap Project (www.sovereign.tech)
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[โ€“] 19 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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

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  • [โ€“] 7 points 1 year 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.

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  • [โ€“] 5 points 1 year 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

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 1 year 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

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 1 year 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.

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

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

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

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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.

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