Comments on: Crowdsourcing bike rack building

By: Mercy

Mercy — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 15:41:07 +0000

I totally agree – it’s endlessly frustrating going to an unfamiliar area and not knowing where the nearest bike rack will be! A website called openstreetmap.org allows you to edit and (I think) share maps – its increasingly being used to crowdsource the mapping of slum areas, and things like that, but it has a feature for adding locations of cycle racks, and the number of spaces available. (Search Earlsfield Station in London for an example.) If this was hosted on a website similar to the NY one, it’d be pretty easy to start building up a picture of where there are racks (or not!). In the meantime it’s surely worth adding any racks people might know about in general too?

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By: Andreas

Andreas — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 11:20:28 +0000

I think the guys behind the project are looking to expand it to other things such as potholes etc. Or even suggesting new bike lanes I presume? Weird to see citizens taking on the city planning departments job!

I think the mobile suggestion is a good one – definitely for tagging the place etc

By: j0e_m

j0e_m — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 08:01:19 +0000

This is very cool – but it needs to be mobile. if i was out looking for a parking spot, i’d want to be able to use a smartphone for taking a picture of where i think one should be, and it should automatically plot it against GPS coords and register it. I just wouldn’t remember/be as motivated by the time i’d got back to a desktop/laptop.

Ditto for pothole marking!