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This isn't showing anything to me from what I can see. Just a blank black map when I zoom in enough. At slightly lower zoom levels I can see outlines of cities
by frereubu 6y ago
This isn't showing anything to me from what I can see. Just a blank black map when I zoom in enough. At slightly lower zoom levels I can see outlines of cities and towns.
Is the idea that those are places where bikes are stolen? If so, isn't this just going to highlight towns and cities because that's lots of bikes are (particularly somewhere like Cambridge where there are loads of bikes), and wouldn't it be better to do per-capita bike thefts? Otherwise this is just a map of where bikes are, rather than where it's more or less dangerous to leave your bike unattended.
Edit: Actually, thefts per bike per capita. Just per capita doesn't take out the fact that there are some places with loads more bikes, like Cambridge. That's presuming the idea is to show where it's most likely that your bike will get stolen.
- okamiueru 6y agoIt took a little while for the map data to compute. Looking at the network graph, it had finished downloading the website after a second or so, but it took like 10 seconds for the initial bike theft data layer to show up, and about 50 seconds until the heat-map layer showed. edit: Looks like it loads the outer level heat map data first, then the next level, etc. However, zooming in at this point breaks the site and turns it white. (This is on FF(87)). National Average widget also fails to load on FF, but works on Chrome, same goes for the zoom-in-page-turns-white-bug.
- seszett 6y agoI had to toggle the heatmap layer off (with the button at the bottom right above the "target" icon) and on again for it to show.
- frereubu 6y agoAh, yes, thanks - looks like they've sped it up somehow now too. But my point about the representation of the data still stands.
- gpvos 6y agoIt still took more than a minute for me to show any data, but it did work in the end.