CityBikes: bike sharing networks around the world
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#2This has been around for a while:
https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdcategory=Navigation...
I guess this is the API it uses. It's pretty impressive. Seemingly hundreds of bike sharing systems are on this thing. It uses OSM for the background, and gives you a reading on how many bikes are at a given station.
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#3Isn't bike sharing huge in China?
Edit: https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2017/mar/22/bike-wars-doc...
> the world’s 15 biggest public bike shares are ranked. Thirteen of them are in China.
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#4This bike share visualization is also very good, has many different cities and lets you replay them over time
http://bikes.oobrien.com/global.php#zoom=3&lon=-60.0000&lat=...
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#5It doesn't seem very consistent. Lots of points in Latin America but when you zoom in, they are all gone.
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#6Isn't bike sharing huge in China? Edit: https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2017/mar/22/bike-wars-doc... > the world’s 15 biggest public bike shares are ranked. Thirteen of them are in China.
My local city has just got a slightly different type of bike sharing scheme where there are no stations/docks for the bikes, but you're allowed to leave them anywhere sensible [1]. From other articles including the guardian one linked above, it seems that this a model that's been used in China and certainly seems to have proven very rapidly scalable.
I guess in these cases it's quite difficult, since it's likely not feasible to update the locations of individual bikes for these guys. I've checked their map and Bristol, UK doesn't appear to show YoBike at the moment, however it's only been in action for a few weeks.
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#7I read: "bike shedding networks around the world", and I thought "Don't they just call those internet forums?".
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#8It doesn't seem very consistent. Lots of points in Latin America but when you zoom in, they are all gone.
I think you're just seeing a poor design choice: the purple dots they use to indicate cities with bike shares are very visible at the whole-world zoom level, but virtually impossible to see when you've zoomed in because they're the same size and in the same location as the map's default city marker.
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#9Great project, it seems that some companies —like Citymapper— use the API[0]. Would be nice if they also contributed with code or supported the author.
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#10This is great. I wish more things were universal like this :)