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jech 3 hours ago

> It has more features but is slower and clunkier

Just to clarify: OsmAnd has more features, CoMaps and Organic Maps are much faster.

(Aside: I'm using CoMaps myself. The main missing features are tracking (I use OpenTracks for that) and public transportation (I use a website for that). End of aside.)

olyjohn 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Wait, I just used the tracking the other day and generated a GPX from it. It also drew me an elevation map and gave me some other info about the trip. Is there some other tracking that it can't do?

jech 27 minutes ago | parent [-]

I stand corrected, CoMaps can do tracking. It was introduced in Organic Maps a couple of years ago, but I was already using OpenTracks, so I never switched away from it.

ihatehn 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

CoMaps lets you record a route, though it's somewhat limited

atkirtland 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

What website do you use for public transportation?

lucgommans 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I was recently recommended https://api.transitous.org (it's a webapp despite the domain). It can do things like "someone can pick me up on the far side and I don't mind walking 30 minutes at the start at 6 km/h, what's the optimal route to take?"

Revolutionary! Finally I don't have to look on a map to find all stations in walking/cycling/driving distance and then route to/from every possible combination of start and end station manually to see what busses and trains run there. And repeat the process with each schedule change in each involved country. Every other transport app that I know of will try to keep you within a few hundred metres of a bus stop or train station at all times and say "there exists no route" before telling you to cycle 10 minutes or from which station you have the shortest remaining distance by taxi or whatever

schubidubiduba 2 hours ago | parent [-]

There is actually work being done to integrate exactly this API into Comaps! Although it will certainly take some more time, especially until these more niche routing features are available

jech 28 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I've found that websites specific to a single European country or, in the case of France, to a single city are the ones that work best.

jraph 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

KDE Itinerary, a mobile and desktop application, is becoming better and better for this. It's based on MOTIS / Transitous.

I just discovered cartes.app can do this too!