[yorwba]

You can enable the "public transport" profile in OsmAnd, today. It might not support your local area, though.

[MeanEYE]

Grab an application called StreetComplete and start contributing. Little by little we'll get there and have awesome maps. Application asks simple questions like type of road or if bus station has a shelter, etc. Then uploads that to OSM.

[schaum]

And there are no realtime updates,for example bus won't even go on a Sunday but it would still route you like it would ..

[netsharc]

The "But Google" rebuttal: I was in a city when they had a public transport strike. The buses/trams would run at irregular times, but as far as Google knew (maybe the public transport company told them so), no buses would run at all.

So trying to get anywhere, Google Maps would say "Walk 20 minutes to the nearest train station, take the train, walk 15 minutes to your final destination.". I had to trick it and say I want to depart 6 months in the future so it would show which tram/bus-lines I actually need, where I can go to the stop and take a chance that one would show up..

[jeroenhd]

I found it able to route me to where I need to go if I decide to switch careers and become a train driver, but planning something easy like "take a bus to the train station" is impossible in OsmAnd.

[namibj]

It's sadly easy to confuse "take public transit" with "driving a train" on the UI :( Given that for most other modes it's used by the driver.

[2Gkashmiri]

years ago i added a bunch of bus stops in my city. the app never picked that up. busses don;t work.

[yorwba]

Some buses do work. Adding bus stops to the map is necessary, but not sufficient to make them work.