OpenRailwayMap VS Graphhopper

Looks nice but it's probably not really usable for navigation. I checked the Netherlands and Germany. You'd need more details for safely navigating on the water. But it definitely has potential.

There are also some other specialized open street map based maps for

- rails: https://www.openrailwaymap.org/

- cycling: https://www.opencyclemap.org/

- sea map (competes with this I guess, and is a bit more detailed for navigation): https://map.openseamap.org/

And probably loads of other ones.

This might be a good place to share: https://www.openrailwaymap.org

The other thing to take into account is where they would need to build routes to make it happen. Looking at https://www.openrailwaymap.org/, there's some spots that need to be filled in to make a Pittsburgh <-> Erie line. But, I could see Meadville and New Castle being at least two of the stops on the way.

The Amtrak plan I linked shows it following the Norfolk-Southern Harrisburg line. It would come from Reading and Phoenixville, through KOP, then join up with the Trenton line near Rte1 and head towards 30th St. From there it looks like it would follow the remainder of the Keystone route. You can follow the path here too:https://www.openrailwaymap.org/

^ This is just not true. For reference.

France has an excellent high speed rail network it has less need for domestic flights. Other countries in the EU could learn from that.

Germany particularly is a basket case. If you take the "high speed" train from Berlin to Köln, it takes nearly five hours, the train stops lots of times, and with the exception of a few tens of kilometers never hits anywhere near its maximum speed. Combined with all the delays, cancelled trains, strikes, etc. It makes for a bit unpredictable experience. Domestic flights are well under 1 hour, typically. Even with the hassle of getting to and from airports, it's way faster.

https://www.openrailwaymap.org/ has a nice map that you can show the maximum speeds on rail segments. Spain and France are the best. I've taken high speed trains in both and their high speed trains go the maximum speed most of the journey. Germany is notable for just not having a lot of rail suitable for its trains to drive their maximum speed.

Germany could do a lot better. But it will require massive investments.

I think the idea of a night train is more attractive than the reality of it being very slow, expensive, and relatively uncomfortable (at least I never managed to sleep well on one).

IMHO domestic flights in many countries can start transitioning to fully electric hops in the next decade or so. Anything under 700 miles is fair game for that. The battery technology is getting there. So, investing in lots of rail might not be the smartest thing.

Open Infra Map; shows major electrical lines, power plants, gas & oil lines, and telecom/data centers. Gets its data from Open Street Map: https://openinframap.org/

Open Railway Map; shows railroad lines. Also gets its data from OSM: https://www.openrailwaymap.org/

This is even better: https://www.openrailwaymap.org

Well I think what he means is that we dropped the explicit support of Android and the example app with offline maps (Mapsforge), see this issue: https://github.com/graphhopper/graphhopper/issues/1940

But offline routing should still work on Android. But as you need JDK 1.8 support this will exclude a few older Android versions and devices, I think.

Graphhopper. It has an Android client that uses its web service. You can also try out the web app.

This is now fixed and deployed. See the route here and the specific fixed examples here. Note that you can still find the dangerous spots via clicking the "stop" icon below the route information multiple times. But this is likely a result of the bad cycling infrastruture as cycle.travel contains these short dangerous parts too and if you do such longer routes for Germany it does not happen.

I'd suggest refactoring to use a self hosted version of Graphhopper (https://www.graphhopper.com/open-source/ - they have a docker image you can use and pass in an OSM file to build a graph on) or OpenRouteService to limit your cost exposure to google.

Open Source. The routing server is open source too and geocoding too.

Valhalla is great (I've contributed a few patches and run it for a while)!

Also check:

http://project-osrm.org/

https://www.graphhopper.com/open-source/

if you attached a geolocation to each meeting that should be possible. either using the google maps API or a self-hosted graphHopper instance

I just improved the documentation for the map matching a bit. Maybe this also helps a bit.