CityBikes is a free software based project providing real time data of bike sharing networks (availability and location).
It aims at giving a comprehensive and unified way of accessing this sort of data, plus distributing it freely to anyone. The philosophy behind CityBikes is that all this information should be already provided, and to enforce innovation on society there's a need for all that happening.
While other applications doing the same are not freeing their data, CityBikes is providing an API to many developers feeding their apps and projects with this fresh data.
Also, sometimes, users just want an easy way of accessing this information, normally from smartphones.
Just to show how widely are used these bike sharing systems around the world, here's a realtime map showing usage (only works on chromish browsers): http://www.citybik.es/realtime
The project is composed by:
CityBikes Android App: a bike sharing network aggregator. It shows the status and availability of stations and bikes in your city, in an intuitive and fancy way, and supports more than 40 cities so far!
Let the app detect your city, and get live data from the bike sharing network around you.
Adjust the radius of your circle to filter stations by distance, or just check the view all mode, to view all the stations in your city.
Bookmark your favorite stations by sliding the finger across the green arrow (the info window on the bottom of the screen), they will always be displayed on the map.
More info @ http://www.github.com/eskerda/CityBikes and https://market.android.com/details?id=net.homelinux.penecoptero.android....
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CityBikes API: Anyone can access this API to get information (HTML / JSON) of a bike sharing network supported by CityBikes.
More info @ http://api.citybik.es
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PyBikes: A python library intended to parse geodata information from bike share websites.
More info @ http://www.github.com/eskerda/pybikes
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