A bike sharing data aggregator. Started as an Android app for my local city, then an app for any city and then just decided to offer an API for free and let other people create apps, visualizations or research based on it.
Been running it for over 10 years. Major transport apps use it for bike sharing data (like moovit or citymapper) with zero contributions to our project. I am proud that there is at least one FOSS app for each major platform out there using the API, which kind of was my idea when offering the free API (and not big players leeching from it).
Very cool. I just checked your site after some time and happily saw that my city is now supported. Upon checking in the API, it's using the unofficial GBFS feed that a couple friends and I are hosting (which we're also earning 0€ from).
We built our own GBFS GraphQL abstraction called gbfsQL [1] a couple years ago that makes working with GBFS less difficult.
Thanks for replying and for providing feeds much on the same philosophy as citybikes. I guess the feed you mention is for Aachen [1]? Sometimes I take a very hands-off approach on the library contributions, so I do not know about specifics. At the moment our gbfs feeds come with a 'gbfs_href' field mentioning the source. Is there any way on which I can give more credit to the work you are doing? It would suck for our project to perpetuate the same kind of damage we receive from other projects, so this is important to me.
Honestly, I am just happy that someone is using the GBFS feed. We built it for and are using it on Openvelo [0] which I don't think many people use. The purpose was never to somehow be rewarded, but to make working with this kind of data in our city easier.
A bike sharing data aggregator. Started as an Android app for my local city, then an app for any city and then just decided to offer an API for free and let other people create apps, visualizations or research based on it.
Been running it for over 10 years. Major transport apps use it for bike sharing data (like moovit or citymapper) with zero contributions to our project. I am proud that there is at least one FOSS app for each major platform out there using the API, which kind of was my idea when offering the free API (and not big players leeching from it).