CityBikes: bike sharing networks around the world

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A FOSS scraper and Android client born in 2010 becomes a global open API that currently supports more than 200 cities and stores over 170M historical entries gathered in about a year. The stack uses Python and the pybikes library to add per-city scrapers, queues scrapers with a task system, and exposes data at api.citybik.es plus a realtime map. There are cease and desist confrontations but the dataset proves useful and widely reused.

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1. 0:00Bike sharing systems intro
2. 2:40Starting CityBikes in Barcelona
3. 5:57CityBikes goes global
4. 8:17Building CityBikes API
5. 11:34Open data in smart cities
6. 14:53Free info access philosophy
7. 16:08Live demo: add Bilbao
8. 21:51Q&A
9. 22:13Legal challenges with data
10. 26:32Beyond bike sharing data
11. 31:14OpenStreetMap integration
12. 32:41Technical infrastructure

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