Organic maps: Experimental feed based public transport mapping

The document doesn&#x27;t say which routing engine is used.<p>I&#x27;m currently integrating Motis on a similar initiative (a french open source Web map, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cartes.app" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cartes.app</a>). More is needed to provide a full transit map experience, but Motis does the essential part.<p>We&#x27;re not far from transit calculation as an open source commodity in countries that publish their transit data as GTFS. E.g. in France there is a whole team called transport.data.gouv.fr that deploys a website + API and do the necessary to convince and help local transport agencies to respect the law.<p>Ingesting this whole dataset is not trivial, lots of bugs arise (e.g. Flixbus&#x27;s agency id : 0 or conflicting calendar_dates.txt ids between different datasets) but a barebone version goes live in 4 seconds (per big agency) of parsing by Motis&#x27;s Nigiri module.<p>The developer of Motis is quite involved, and came to Organic Maps&#x27;s discussion here <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;organicmaps&#x2F;organicmaps&#x2F;issues&#x2F;5331#issuecomment-2026893849">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;organicmaps&#x2F;organicmaps&#x2F;issues&#x2F;5331#issue...</a><p>Then comes the hardest part IMHO : the UI. Motis provides intermodal routing with the choice of walk &#x2F; reduced mobility &#x2F; bicycle &#x2F; car &#x2F; car + parking before and after the bus, and all this needs to be integrated in a UI that can rival Google &#x2F; Apple Maps &#x2F; Transitapp.com &#x2F; etc<p>Organic Maps have very beautiful transit lines representation in the style of Transit app&#x27;s great work. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.transitapp.com&#x2F;how-we-built-the-worlds-prettiest-auto-generated-transit-maps-12d0c6fa502f" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.transitapp.com&#x2F;how-we-built-the-worlds-pretties...</a><p>Would be cool if some demo of the extended transit lines could be provided by Organic Maps following this readme file.

While I don&#x27;t use Organic Maps as my daily driver because there is no traffic data, it has been invaluable to have on my phone. It is one of the best offline and trail maps I&#x27;ve used.

Related, shouldn&#x27;t it be possible to get data from rail signalling radios, and infer when a train is blocking a level crossing, and mark a temporary closure on that road so traffic is routed around it?<p>In the US at least, trains sometimes block crossings for upwards of 10 minutes, and it can be very worthwhile to drive around. Doubly so if you could know en-route and seamlessly reroute, rather than having to approach the crossing to discover the closure.

Does this mean that the routing will happen on the app? This might be a bit resource intensive, but great feature (especially since it will work offline!)

Does anybody know if there&#x27;s an Organic Maps equivalent for cycling?<p>OSM has a lot of data that&#x27;s only available in everything-maps like OsmAnd, such as location of bicycle parking spaces or quality of cycle lanes. It would be nice to have it in a nicer interface than that app.<p>I&#x27;m currently building a bike + public transit directions engine (bringing your bike on the train). I&#x27;m surprised that this doesn&#x27;t exist yet; it&#x27;s my favourite way to get around!

This looks incredibly promising.<p>Having only subway options (and not all of them) in the cities I&#x27;ve been traveling is was a good start, but just adding buses would be a tremendous increase in quality of life... no more going through all the buggy and slow local transit websites.<p>(Why do local transit authorities think it makes sense to front-load several MB of media files on the homepage of their route-finding website, and load the &quot;itinerary&quot; component <i>last?</i> This is beyond me)

Off-topic to the public transit news, but: I&#x27;ve enjoyed Organic Maps for years, but it seems they made a change within the past year (maybe 3-4 months ago) that slowed everything down. Anyone know what happened? It used to be very responsive, but now one a new area, it can take second or two to update.

From my experience working with GTFS it&#x27;s difficult because the operators usually don&#x27;t include all the information but the fact of having GTFS support it&#x27;s a great step