Open Data, Open Problems: The Story Behind CityBikes

CityBikes is the most comprehensive open access API for bike sharing information, with support for more than 700 cities all around the world.

Less than 25% of CityBikes data comes from open data standard feeds—for every city in CityBikes publishing their bike sharing information in a reusable format, there are at least three more that do not use a standard format.

CityBikes aims to change that by providing developers, researchers and organizations with a standard resource to bridge this gap and contribute towards an interoperable open data ecosystem for mobility services.

In this talk, Lluís Esquerda main developer at CityBikes will share the motivations behind the project, what it’s like to maintain it after more than a decade, and dive into the new tools and historical data systems they are building.

https://citybik.es

📅 Date: May 14th
⏰ Start time: 19:00
📍 Location: Akasha Hub - Carrer de la Verneda, 19, Nau 1 · Barcelona

Agenda:

• 19:00 h: Welcome
• 19:05 h: Talk
• 19:50 h: Networking