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Hey HN, nextbike.lol is an exploratory project that scrapes and visualizes data from the biggest European rental bike provider, Nextbike. Right now, it is capa
by merl1n 1y ago
Hey HN, nextbike.lol is an exploratory project that scrapes and visualizes data from the biggest European rental bike provider, Nextbike.
Right now, it is capable of collecting all bike positions over time and their corresponding places and cities. It also collects the zones in which bikes can be parked.
When clicking on a bike, you can see how it has moved across the map over time and which stations it was left at.
- detaro 1y agowhen is the position updated? Only when a bike is "released" or also when in use?
- merl1n 1y agoSadly (or luckily), you can only get the position of a bike when it's parked. Having live data on the movement of rented bikes would be fun, but also a privacy nightmare ...
- detaro 1y agoright, thats what I was worried about, there being an oversight for an actual hidden way of tracking people.