In Karachi, public transport routes were available either in a static manner only for the Air conditioned buses:
Or as an outdated list of points that were extremely time consuming to navigate and unreliable.
But not for much longer!
Pointr is an open-source app for navigating public transport based on a community contribution model. It is limited to Karachi at this time.
- View A/C Bus, Minibus and Chinchi routes
- Create custom routes and share them
- Use Google Maps and Places Search to set the stops of your journey
- View routes ranked by their suitability for your journey
Create a pull request with hardcoded routes to contribute. Hardcoded routes are contained in lib/infrastructure/data/hardcoded_routes.dart
Thanks to Zaineb Makati of Habib University for sharing the minibus routes and pedestrian stops. Thanks to Hassan bin Mashaam for assistance on UI/UX. Thanks to IBA Batch of 2024 for assisting with pre-release testing.
add a file named "api_keys.json" to the root of the project containing the following
{ "GMAP_KEY": "AIza...", "env": "dev }