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Question ๐Ÿ™‹: best public transport app for Australia or Melbourne? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/melbourne@aussie.zone
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Good day! I'll be flying to Australia soon, and I'm interested in trying public transport (even if it's good or not always good, I want to see what's there). Which apps would you recommend?

// I've tried googling the question, but somehow get 20-minute videos with animated characters and nonsense like that. I think I'll trust recommendations from this community by a lot more ๐Ÿ’š.

I'll be in Melbourne, Adelaide and Sydney.

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[โ€“] [S] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Oh wow, that's a lot of useful information, huge thank you! Since as you're indicating it's the GTFS data underneath, I'll try Moovit, which last time I checked worked even on my de-googlified phone (GrapheneOS without google services). Thanks again! ๐Ÿ’š

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  • [โ€“] [S] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    UPDATE: BTW, I've found some experimental support in CoMaps - supposedly, haven't tried it https://codeberg.org/comaps/comaps/src/branch/main/docs/EXPERIMENTAL_PUBLIC_TRANSPORT_SUPPORT.md May be broken easily due to the experimental status of course..

    UPDATE2: Tried Moovit, it still works without google services, whoray! .. And still asks money or fills me up with ads to the brim, also as before...

    UPDATE3: and it doesn't allow putting GPS coordinates in the search field, unfortunately. This adds some churn if you're switching between CoMaps and back..

    UPDATE4: actually in Melbourne, Moovit didn't find anything. Google Maps does. Not sure why this happens. Google Maps in a browser tab is also an option if things get dire..

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