citybikes: on how and why i am scrapping the world for bike sharing data

on how and why I am scrapping the world for bike sharing data

www.citybik.es Lluís Esquerda@ctbikes

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Me

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Walked distance: 800m

EmptyStation

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Walked distance: 1km 200m

Stationis offline

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Walked distance: 2 km

Ha ha,no bikes

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Walked distance:

suddenly,bikes

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Going by bikeis awesome!

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Ok, let's leavethe bike...

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Nope.. not here

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Uhmm.. I guessI am pretty far..

In fact, where am I?

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FINALLY...

Over there, astation!

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THERE ARE NO SPACES LEFT

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Prior knowledge would havesaved time and frustation

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Olivier Tilloy

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openBicing

API Android app

LGPL Apache2

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Hawaii \o/

U.S.

Mexico

Australia

Japan

Europe (lots)China

17 countries46 cities

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API > Android app

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"cleaname":"Av "name":"16 - Av "idx":15, "timestamp":"2012-0, "nearby_stations":"1, "number":16, "free":18, "bikes":3, "lat":41398270, "lng":2186708

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Projects using CityBikes

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Projects using CityBikes

http://www.bikebrisbane.me

Projects using CityBikes

http://bisicalc.com

Projects using CityBikes

http://www.bcycl.mobi

Projects using CityBikes

http://www.dimitris-papanikolaou.com

Projects using CityBikes

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Projects using CityBikes

Realtime

Companies and City councils

"robbing"

City councils

A+

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Hurr, durr, money

City councils

STOP

City councils

DO IT

Thank youCredits

Lluis EsquerdaAnibal de Castro

ContributionsOliver TilloyIvano CroceSilvio Traversaro

csu333Johannes WeiserDavid Valls