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Lokjo.com - Your worldwide local map (www.lokjo.com)

submitted 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) by redd@discuss.tchncs.de to c/openstreetmap@lemmy.ml

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New OSM based Map Website.

We use open data from OSM.org , a platform with over a million volunteers world wide, updating the map, roads, locations etc in their area. This includes any shops.

Hopefully it keeps alive and does not die (like similar Qwant Maps)

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[–] balsoft@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

What annoys me even more with both osmapp and lokjo is that they show neither metro stops/lines (unless you zoom right in) nor bike paths (at all), and there's no option to enable it. Also neither of the apps allow you to make routes via public transit. Apart from feeling car-brained, this makes those apps functionally useless for navigating in bigger cities for more than a couple kilometers (and I say that as someone who has a car; I'm not spending my life in traffic, public transit is much faster, easier, and eco-friendly!)

[–] infeeeee@lemm.ee 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

For usable public transport routing the router would need to know the timetable, and that data is not available in osm. There was a thread about this a month ago: https://feddit.org/post/3575702

Osmapp has a bicycle layer and bicycle routing.

[–] balsoft@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

For usable public transport routing the router would need to know the timetable, and that data is not available in osm.

Not necessarily. At least here, transit (metro + buses) is typically rapid enough that you don't have to worry about timetables much, unless you're really in a hurry; I've done a few trips using OsmAnd's public transport routing and it worked just fine, and it doesn't know about timetables.

Also, most towns publish not only their timetables but often the live locations of their buses & trains with GTFS; I wish more apps supported it, at least by offering to manually add the URL of the transit operator you're using.

[–] InsertUser@en.osm.town 1 points 6 minutes ago

@balsoft @infeeeee @openstreetmap

That's the exception rather than the rule.

I would generally prefer to know what routes to look up though.

[–] infeeeee@lemm.ee 1 points 59 minutes ago (1 children)

Yes, it's possible, and there are few examples, the point is it's much more complex to implement it than just slapping router on top of the map.

[–] balsoft@lemmy.ml 1 points 45 minutes ago

Sure, I appreciate that it's more complicated due to there not being a connected road graph in the same way as there is for other modes of transport. But at the very least showing the main transit arteries (metro & light rail) prominently would already go a long way, if nothing else than to help identify places by their nearest transit stop.