Is there any progress on bringing public transport navigation to #OpenStreetMap? The fact it's not a feature is basically the only caveat for me to using #OSM now.
@GreenandBlack OSM doesn't allow data from authoritative sources (IP issues I guess?) so things like schedule and route data would either need to be crowdsourced or added in a third party app. On Android, for example, there's Transportr, which provides transit navigation using OSM for maps.
@freakazoid
To be clear, Transportr uses OSM for maps, but not navigation. Navigation is provided by Navitia, a free (gratis) but not free (libre) service which uses a select set of available public transit services. Navitia doesn't take public contributions, instead you post a request to add a transit service, and a link to the data. They'll take a look, and decide whether they can/will. I was lucky and had my city approved, but my friend's was not.
@GreenandBlack
@freakazoid @GreenandBlack
Navitia API calls don't require downloading the entire schedule again, they just cache it and run the navigation algorithms on their copy. If everyone started downloading these (sometimes ~100s MB) files from transit agencies to their phones, they'd likely get annoyed and stop making them public. :/
I still think there's the possibility for something interesting in this space tho, both for privacy and community control