Bike Share Map: London. CiBi.me. Using open data to plan NYC bike share system. Welcome back to Gehl Institute’s partnership with Untapped Cities in New York, looking at the impact of data, both open and collected, in the design of cities. On March 7, New York City became the first local government to pass legislation ensuring public access to data. The passing of the bill symbolizes a political embrace of the “open” culture already underway in New York City’s “Silicon Alley.” City agencies and non-profit organizations in New York are making new correlations between urban conditions and social phenomenon, utilizing crowdsourcing and open data, to support traditional methods of data analysis.
Open Plans, a New York-based non-profit organization with a focus on transportation and urban planning, is an example of such a progressive group. The Open Plans team builds software which enables public agencies and non-profit organizations to crowdsource input from the community. Publicly submitted requests for bike share stations in NYC Like this: Like Loading... Visualizing the Bikes of Boston. Last week, Hubway announced its Data Visualization Challenge. Hubway is a bike sharing system located in the Boston area: you simply pick up a bike at a particular station and drop it off at the closest station near your destination.
For this challenge, Hubway released a CSV-file, containing over half a million rides. Each entry contains the origin and destination station as well as the timing-information and some anonymoused demographic information. The purpose of the challenge is to create appealing visualizations that provide Hubway with cool insights in how customers are using their bikes. As I had 8 hours to spare on a flight to New York, I decided to give it go. 1. The goal of my visualization is to depict how bikers flow through the city of Boston, namely: “taking a specific station as starting point, to which other stations are people biking”. Playing around with the Prefuse visualization library in the past, I remembered somebody releasing a flow map layout implementation. 2. The App - BikeCityGuide. BikeCityGuide makes cycling in cities easier and more comfortable!
No matter, if you want to explore the city or just navigate to a destination: with BikeCityGuide you find the most cycle-friendly route and enjoy cycling even more! Cycling navigation system BikeCityGuide is a navigation app for smartphones, specifically designed for the needs of cyclists in cities. Cycle paths and side streets are favoured, while busy main streets are avoided. Turn-by-turn navigation Our cycling navigation system goes along with vocal instructions that work exactly even in the most difficult turning situations. Offline routing Most features of BikeCityGuide, especially navigation and route planning can be used without an active internet connection.
Bike tours BikeCityGuide knows many POIs in every city. Get your Finn bike mount. CycleStreets: UK-wide Cycle Journey Planner and Photomap. London Cycling Campaign. VeloMap.org -Roadbike – Bicycle – Maps based on Openstreetmap.