It uses Transitous, the same routing engine as Bimba. So yes, it should work fine if you’re on Linux.
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As for the actual question at hand: don’t rely too much on OSRM. It’s just the “default” router, and there are many others out there. E.g. both Valhalla and Graphhopper suggest the shorter route in pedestrian mode.
Also, will OSM - OrganicMaps\CoMaps will introduce any time soon ability for public transport routes?
I don’t think there are any current plans for it. It’s actually really difficult to get right.
OsmAnd kinda cheats and doesn’t have any scheduling information, basically it assumes that the transit comes often enough that it doesn’t matter, which is fine in bigger cities. However, if your bus comes only twice a day it will be an issue.
There’s an open-source app for public transit called Bimba. It is a bit janky, and it requires you to be online for proper routing, but it does work for many cities. It still needs a lot of polishing before I’d consider it done, and actually I’d love for it to just become an OsmAnd plugin at some point.
I’ve managed to locate the exact place from the screenshot (there was enough identifying info for an overpass query so you might want to consider improving opsec if it’s a privacy concern).
I think the reason why walking prefers to go the long way around is because the path parallel to the secondary road is marked as
highway=footway, and walking algorithms generally prefer those over other types of paths. It is assumed thathighway=footwayis tended to and therefore more pleasant/fast to walk on compared to a generalhighway=path, which is just something that is maintained naturally because of people walking there. I guesssurface=mudon the shorter path might also play into it - routers will generally penalize worse surfaces and instead suggest you to walk on firmer ones.If that shorter path is actually “official” in some way and is pleasant to walk on, consider changing it to
highway=footway, otherwise the router is probably behaving correctly by not sending you down a muddy shortcut.
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Technology@lemmy.world•EU age verification app can be hacked in 2 minutes, claims security expertEnglish
4·5 days agoYes, exactly, I mention it in my comment. It almost did the right thing and blundered in one detail.
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Technology@lemmy.world•EU age verification app can be hacked in 2 minutes, claims security expertEnglish
221·5 days agoThis is what the California law requires BTW (except it makes the field mandatory which is shit). IMO in this case the EU solution is overcomplicated, it just feels like they needed an excuse to get more out of the COVID certificate investments…
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Technology@lemmy.world•Japan finds a way to recover 90% of lithium from old EV batteriesEnglish
1·6 days agoMost applications for batteries care about their size and weight
Actually, one of main applications for batteries in the near-to-medium future is gonna be grid storage to supplement the explosive growth of renewables, and home backups to make the grid more distributed and replace diesel/gas generators during blackouts. For those purposes you don’t really care about the size, really don’t care about the weight, and a cheaper, more stable, less fire-prone chemistry suddenly becomes very appealing.
I agree with you that lithium is not going anywhere for a while, it’s the best fit for many applications like EVs, drones, etc. But I wouldn’t be surprised if its share in the battery market drops significantly over the next 10-15 years.
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Technology@lemmy.world•From Molotov cocktails to data center shutdowns, the AI backlash is turning revolutionaryEnglish
13·6 days agoMany labor movements throughout history started out due to advances in automation resulting in unemployment and rising inequality. This time around there’s also a huge cost of living crisis too, so things are lining up (you might hear “contradictions are sharpening” in marxist circles). If anything I’d have expected violence to start sooner and be more widespread, if someone gets laid off due to AI in this job market they literally have nothing to lose at this point.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Battery costs have declined by 99% in the last three decades, making electrified transport a realityEnglish
1·18 days agoUS was built on rail, and it was way less dense and urban back then. The problem is not how “compact” a country is, it’s simply a question of priorities and budgets. China and EU are investing in rail (to varying degrees), so they get rail with all its benefits. US is wasting more and more money on financially unsustainable car infrastructure, so it is getting failing car infrastructure.
Ok, so the first two sound reasonable, but blabbering about “non-retroactivity” and being against reparations is fucking pathetic. Imagine taking that legal position during Nuremberg.
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1·1 month agoSorry to be picky, but it’s definitely way more than 40000 dead Palestinians.
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Europe@feddit.org•Spain permanently withdraws ambassador as rift with Israel deepensEnglish
3·1 month agoWell, technically the condition was to expel the israeli and US ambassadors. This is the other way around, and AFAIK withdrawing your own ambassador is considered a less aggressive move than expelling the ambassador of the other country. And either way I strongly doubt they will do anything about their US relationship. So this seems to be just a based thing to do rather than trying to comply with iranian demands
edit: it seems israel already withdrawn their ambassador from Spain last May, so this move now feels completely unrelated to the demands.
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13·1 month agoThis is a really naive take - this amendment (which requires message scanning to be targeted) passed with a slim majority and could well have failed. In that case the existing mass surveillance (“voluntary scanning”) would probably keep happening at least until 2028.
The council meanwhile is overwhelmingly pro-message-scanning, and they (together with the commission) are the ones who are pushing to break e2e encryption. There will now be talks between the three institutions to decide on how to proceed. Sadly I expect that some “compromise” will be reached eventually.
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1·1 month agoI get your point, but if you actually go out and speak with women who trust you, chances are they will all have multiple stories of harassment and/or SA that will make your skin crawl. It’s not just fearmongering, there are a lot of awful men out there (in absolute terms)
I’m surprised how many (well-meaning) men are clueless about this horrible aspect of life which is so universal for women.
I’m not convinced. The edges of laser-cut plywood are not smooth, they still have a rough grainy texture to them, and they’re also covered in soot which is probably not conducive to music playback.
I’m really interested in hearing what this sounds like, but I don’t expect much.
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15·2 months agoYeah, if you’ve ever tried to polish up wood (without any sort of coating), you know it’s almost impossible to make it completely smooth, it always has a certain texture to the touch. And here, where you have to pretty much cut it once and can’t polish it at all, it’s probably going to retain a lot of that texture in the groove. So I guess it is possible that it might “”“play”“”, but it would probably be mostly noise with some music coming through at times.
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21·2 months agoGood, let the nutjobs fight
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Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.world•Incel propaganda in my music appEnglish
6·2 months agoMan vs reeducation camp guards
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Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.world•Incel propaganda in my music appEnglish
9·2 months agoIf you’re ok with a little piracy, this exists: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.dd3boh.outertune
And then you can also buy your favorite albums/songs on bandcamp to actually support the artists!


I guess because CoMaps/Organic Maps are “offline-first” maps, and transitous requires you to be online.
There’s actually a ticket on CoMaps about this: https://codeberg.org/comaps/comaps/issues/2483
They are considering making a proof of concept that works online, and then putting in some more work to make it work offline too.