Yeah, but also Google Maps sucks massive donkey balls for finding public transit routes.
There’s probably a much faster connection available if you use your public transit’s own website.
I use it daily an overall it’s better than the DB or my local network’s app.
Sometimes it’s wrong so I use both. Where it shines is telling me how to get to the right stop and steig. For some reason neither German app will tell me what steig I need and it is a pain.
I stopped using them when they removed their promise not to sell user data from their privacy policy. I also didn’t feel great about using a closed source service anyway.
Öffi used to be the best app for all of Germany, but it stopped working some months ago, and I read that that was due to an API change from Deutsche Bahn.
So now I use my local transit company’s app and the DB navigator.
Where I am (seattle), google maps and the king county metro site give the same routes and information. Almost feels like they’re talking to the same API considering it gives the same time down to the minute.
Nowhere as optimal as 9292 though.
And for walking and bicycling, OpenStreetMaps or Komoot or Tourtje are better as well than that Americrap. The latter two are annoying in that you need to make an account, though.
On top of that, all those I mentioned are much less data hungry than G**gle Maps.
Yeah, but also Google Maps sucks massive donkey balls for finding public transit routes.
There’s probably a much faster connection available if you use your public transit’s own website.
does public transit usually have a website that is not just a list of names of places and times?
Citymapper is a great app that handles public transportation navigation very well for most major cities.
http://citymapper.com/
(Not FOSS. Free with some ads or 10usd/year ad free. Shoot me)
This is again a US only issue I’m afraid. It works great in Europe and Japan.
Maybe it changed, but last time I tried it it didn’t work well in Germany.
Granted, our public transport system is pretty complicated.
I use it daily an overall it’s better than the DB or my local network’s app.
Sometimes it’s wrong so I use both. Where it shines is telling me how to get to the right stop and steig. For some reason neither German app will tell me what steig I need and it is a pain.
It didn’t work well in Germany when I arrived in Europe six years ago, but for the last three or so years it’s been quite good.
It really does suck in Germany. At least in Berlin, Citymapper is the bees knees!
I stopped using them when they removed their promise not to sell user data from their privacy policy. I also didn’t feel great about using a closed source service anyway.
Now I use a combination of Öffi and Organic Maps.
I missed that! That sucks. Didn’t know about Öffi!
Öffi used to be the best app for all of Germany, but it stopped working some months ago, and I read that that was due to an API change from Deutsche Bahn.
So now I use my local transit company’s app and the DB navigator.
Öffi still works well for me 🤔
Works again for me too, thanks.
Öffi works again with the DB as provider, they switched to the new API.
Also did you know that there is a fork which adds some new, pretty handy features: https://github.com/santawho/oeffi-ng
Google Maps works fairly well for most US public transit. Mostly because there isn’t much of it; so it’s not hard for them to maintain it. 😉
Ha! Got you Europeans! It was all part of the plan, we INTENTIONALLY chose worse public transit, so we can have accurate Google map routes!
Where I am (seattle), google maps and the king county metro site give the same routes and information. Almost feels like they’re talking to the same API considering it gives the same time down to the minute.
I use this app called Transit. Same data, but if any data is missing, it’s crowdsourced by people on the bus using the app.
that’s because king county literally uses google and google maps to provide transit maps and routing information.
It’s absolutely fine in the Netherlands.
Nowhere as optimal as 9292 though. And for walking and bicycling, OpenStreetMaps or Komoot or Tourtje are better as well than that Americrap. The latter two are annoying in that you need to make an account, though.
On top of that, all those I mentioned are much less data hungry than G**gle Maps.
It used to be better but Google being Google they keep killing their good services
That’s of course more likely the said public transit site sucking at providing an API that works. But yeah, for a user that can be a good lpt.