Meet halfway, in any city
A fair meeting point is the place that keeps travel time even across a whole group, which is almost never the geographic midpoint - city transport networks radiate from the centre, so two people a few miles apart can be forty minutes apart. togather compares real door-to-door times for each person, on the mode each person actually travels by, and returns the spots where nobody is carrying the trip.
What makes a meeting point fair
Fair is not the same as central. A spot in the middle of the map can still be a single ride for three people and two changes for the fourth, and the person with the worst journey is the one who decides whether the plan happens at all. The useful measure is the spread - the gap between the longest and the shortest trip in the group. Shrink that and you have a fair meeting point, wherever it happens to sit.
This is why a midpoint calculation misleads in cities specifically. Metro and rail networks radiate from the centre, so travel time follows the lines rather than the distance. Two people a few miles apart can be forty minutes apart if the network sends them in through the middle and back out again. What matters instead is how many lines a station touches and which residential districts feed into it without a change - which is why multi-line interchanges keep winning, and why they are what each city guide below names.
Mixed groups are the normal case
Most real groups are not all travelling the same way. Someone cycles, someone walks in from ten minutes away, someone is on the train from out of town. Tools built for two people in two cars have nothing to say about that. togather takes each person's own mode - metro, bike, walking or driving - times each journey on its own network, and shows everyone's travel time alongside the result, so the group can see the answer is even rather than take it on trust.
By transport mode, and by question
The same problem from the angle you arrived at it - a mode, a group size, or a decision the group is stuck on.
- By public transportWhy the fair point follows the lines rather than the distance.
- By bikeCycling times do not radiate from the centre, so the fair point moves.
- For 5 peopleWhat changes once a group is bigger than two.
- Which station to meet atHow to pick the interchange when everyone starts somewhere different.
- Between multiple addressesWhat "halfway" should mean when there are more than two starting points.
City guides
Each guide names the interchanges that work as a fair midpoint in that city, the transport modes worth using, and why the geographic middle tends to be the wrong answer there.
Europe
North America
Asia-Pacific
Latin America
Middle East
Everywhere else
These cities have a written guide. togather itself works anywhere Google Maps does - open the app, drop in everyone's starting points and it times each journey on the mode that person actually travels by.
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