Transit Routing

[sils]

One important thing that keeps me from using maps.me full time is missing public transportation. Apparently it's possible with free software: http://ml4711.blogspot.co.at/2016/04/a-little-update-on-transit-routing-in.html

I think this is a real major deal.

[biodranik]

Thanks for the link, it's in our plans.

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On 30.4.2016, at 19.44, Lasse Schuirmann notifications@github.com wrote:

One important thing that keeps me from using maps.me full time is missing public transportation. Apparently it's possible with free software: http://ml4711.blogspot.co.at/2016/04/a-little-update-on-transit-routing-in.html

I think this is a real major deal.

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[ignaciolep]

Another OpenSource option: "Valhalla, the open-source project that powers Mapzen Turn-by-Turn, is the first open-source routing engine able to serve transit directions across multiple metropolitan regions." -> https://mapzen.com/blog/introducing-mapzen-mobility/

[airon90]

I suggest to use Transit.land too. Transportr uses Navitia.io's data instead but they don't have so much data and are too slow to add them.

[jancborchardt]

It would make a lot of sense to collaborate with the other projects here. Looping in:

• @irees @doublestranded @drewda from @transitland
• @grote from Transportr
• @mlundblad from GNOME Maps

[mlundblad]

The transit branch I have in GNOME Maps uses OpenTripPlanner

[drewda]

For those interested, let me explain the differences among the three Mapzen projects that have come up on this thread. Any of them, or a combination, may be relevant to you all adding transit routing to maps.me.

• Mapzen Turn-by-Turn is a hosted API that provides multimodal routing in many different metro areas around the world. It's free to try with a Mapzen API developer key: https://mapzen.com/products/turn-by-turn/
• Valhalla is the open-source routing engine that powers Mapzen Turn-by-Turn. Anyone is free to stand up their own instance on their own servers. It's similar to running an instance of OpenTripPlanner, with the responsibility of ingesting your own road data (from OSM) and transit data (from Transitland): https://github.com/valhalla/valhalla
• Transitland is an open-data project to sponsored by Mapzen, along with a variety of other partners, that aggregates GTFS feeds from around the world. The standing instances of Valhalla that power Mapzen Turn-by-Turn ingest their data from Transitland's API. The API is free for anyone to consume data for their own applications, their own routing engines, or other uses: https://transit.land/documentation/datastore/api-endpoints.html

We're glad to take any and all questions at hello@mapzen.com (for Turn-by-Turn and Valhalla) or hello@transit.land (for Transitland).