🚍 Dandii is here — Addis Ababa's transit, finally on one map.

Back in 2018, I kept running into the same problem: there was no single place to answer a simple question — "Which route actually gets me there, and what does it cost?" Anbessa, Sheger, the minibus associations, the LRT — all real, all moving thousands of people every day, but scattered across memory, word of mouth, and guesswork.

I told myself I'd build the app for it one day. Today, that day arrived.

Dandii lets you:
🔎 Search any route across every Addis operator
🗺️ See the trip on the map, stop by stop
💵 Check the fare and the schedule
⭐ Save the routes you ride every day
✍️ Report a fare when it changes — riders keep the data honest, together

None of this would exist without open data. Dandii is built on the official Addis Ababa GTFS produced by World Resources Institute (WRI) Africa — the dataset that maps this whole network. I was part of the technical team that processed and analyzed the data behind that GTFS, so this launch is a way of giving back to the public.

🙏 A huge thank-you to WRI Africa for building — and keeping up to date — the transit data that makes a tool like this possible. Maintained open data is a public good, and it's the foundation Dandii stands on.

Try it, break it, tell me what's missing:
👉 dandii.app
📱 github.com/rabira-hierpa/dandii

PS. This is still on active development so contributions are welcome.

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