Re: [Libreplanet-us-wa] OneBusAway [was Re: Thx for a great meetup.]

[elcaseti .]

According to photos of Metro's Puget Sound Trip Planner (the full name)

 on Google Play, it also uses google maps.  Very annoying!

On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 5:38 AM, elcaseti . <address@hidden> wrote:

"I haven't used it, but could it be that it is that it's

dependent on proprietary android google maps

software until someone makes it work with open streetmap?"   I just opened the onebusaway

 app, and it is currently using google maps.  I'm surprised, since most of the apps I've used or read about use open street maps.  So, yep, it does need to be made to work with open street maps to be included in fdroid, afaict.  So, that's two seperate projects. 

Project One: convert metro trip planner to libre software, along with the map used.  Also, make metro trip planner more usable.

Project Two: Make onebusaway able to work with open street maps.

On Sun, Dec 27, 2015 at 10:17 AM, Andrew Kane <address@hidden> wrote:

On 12/26/2015 09:56 PM, Jon Erlichman wrote:
> I'm going to look into why it's not available on F-Droid. That's the only way I install software, but I'm sure we could install the apk from garbagehub.
>
> The main problem, however, remains; this isn't Trip Planner. That's a proprietary app and I want to organize a local campaign to liberate it.
>

I think that's a laudable goal. I don't have any idea as to how to
implement it, but maybe public.resource.org would have some suggestions
on how to begin, since they do the same thing with a different kind of
'code'.

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> On December 26, 2015 9:51:11 PM PST, Ian Kelling <address@hidden> wrote:
>> On Sat, Dec 26, 2015, at 09:45 PM, elcaseti . wrote:
>>> If that is the case, & it appears to be, then problem solved.  I'm so
>>> used to apps on Google Play being non-libre software, that it didn't
>>> occur to me that it might be Libre.  Very cool.
>>
>> But it's not available on f-droid so there isn't an easy way to install
>> it without using proprietary software.
>