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[โ€“] 19 points 6 months ago (4 children)

I just want a map app that understands the dedicated bicycle lanes in my country and does not recommend insane unsafe routes because it assumes I'm in a car. I have tried comaps and organic maps but I always need to like try out the routes myself first to find a good route.

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  • [โ€“] 15 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Do those apps not have separate car/bicycle modes? Osmand does

    If they do and the paths are still wrong you might need to tag them correctly on OpenStreetMap.

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  • [โ€“] 18 points 6 months ago

    They do, but the routes are rarely optimal for cyclists. Or sometimes technically legal to ride on, but if you know the place in real life you know some of the roads are less than ideal for cyclists.

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  • [โ€“] 13 points 6 months ago

    It's actually quite a hard problem for OSM community to solve since you need quite detailed data (stuff like road surface, width etc) and possibly traffic data. Even then, that doesn't tell you everything like whether it's a "nice place" to cycle or is dangerous. There are people trying to work on it but it is a hard problem. One can hope it gets solved.

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  • [โ€“] 10 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

    Itโ€™s definitely better than Google Maps, which tells me to cross a roundabout on foot โ€“ even though thereโ€™s actually a path just for pedestrians a little further on (I think? Iโ€™m not even sure if itโ€™s officially recognised by the city lmao)

    Edit:

    The blue route is the google maps suggestion, the green one is the safest one that everyone takes, The roundabout is also part of a ring road .-.

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  • [โ€“] 6 points 6 months ago (5 children)

    CoMaps is an interesting project, but I've gotten so used to Organic Maps ๐Ÿ˜ are there any other features it has that could make it stand out from Organic Maps? (Besides the map colours)

    And most importantly: does it feature public transit navigation options beside the metro?

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  • [โ€“] 10 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    In my experience , in Berlin it works for the U Bahn (metro) and S Bahn (train) but not for buses and trams :โ€™)

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  • [โ€“] 9 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Yeah, I have a similar experience with Organic Maps. We don't have anything like the S Bahn yet in Bucharest, but we have a metro and it works with it. However the vast majority of my trips are made with the surface transit (buses, trams and trolleybuses) and that's where Organic Maps doesn't help.

    Looks like they're working on an integration with the GTFS feeds, albeit I would've been happier if they used an already established project like @transitous instead

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  • [โ€“] 9 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Comaps looks and works like Organic, since its a Fork

    Public transit is bad on both, I'd recommend รถffi

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  • [โ€“] 4 points 6 months ago (9 children)

    Can comaps do directions? I can't figure out how if so.

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 6 months ago (6 children)

    I didn't find that feature either.

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  • [โ€“] 6 points 6 months ago* (3 children)

    Tap once on the map or search up where you want to go and tap on "Route To."

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 6 months ago

    I haven't had luck with it when it comes to finding places in Finland. And all of the open source options seem to have issues with residential areas, not just Comaps. That's not counting the technical issues.

    HereWeGo, while closed source and a private company unfortunately, is at least European and even has public transportation data. At least it's not Google too.

    I still use Every Door when possible to contribute, but the lack of residencies and glacial update cycles still leaves it so that I can't really recommend these apps to even my wife, let alone others.

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 6 months ago

    Use the route to button in the bottom right

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