{"id":134,"date":"2011-03-07T09:26:18","date_gmt":"2011-03-07T09:26:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mappinglondon.blogs.splintdev.geog.ucl.ac.uk\/?p=134"},"modified":"2013-04-11T13:27:19","modified_gmt":"2013-04-11T12:27:19","slug":"where-are-the-bikes-in-3d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/2011\/where-are-the-bikes-in-3d\/","title":{"rendered":"Where are the Bikes? &#8211; in 3D"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/london_3dbikes_1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/london_3dbikes_1.jpg\" alt=\"london_3dbikes_1\" width=\"1061\" height=\"750\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-135\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/london_3dbikes_1.jpg 1061w, https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/london_3dbikes_1-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/london_3dbikes_1-1024x723.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1061px) 100vw, 1061px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/AdrianShort\">Adrian Short<\/a>, provider of one of the main 3rd-party APIs for the <a>Barclays Cycle Hire<\/a> scheme in London &#8211; the <a href=\"http:\/\/borisapi.heroku.com\/\">Boris Bikes API<\/a> &#8211; has taken his data and <a href=\"http:\/\/adrianshort.co.uk\/2010\/08\/26\/london-cycle-hire-3d-visualisation-in-google-earth\/\">produced a live-updating KML<\/a> file of the numbers of bike at each docking station, viewable in Google Earth.<\/p>\n<p>Flying around central London in Google Earth, with Adrian&#8217;s KML file loaded in, reveals canyons of empty docking stations, mountains of bikes. In the pictures here, taken on a typical weekday evening, someone at St Paul&#8217;s Cathedral needing to hire a bike, would need to head northwards, as the bikes look a little lean on the ground to the south. However, Waterloo is surrounded by &#8220;towers&#8221; of available bikes, so anyone arriving at the station there would have no problem finding one to hire.<\/p>\n<p><em>Background imagery is supplied by Google Earth and is copyright 2011 Bluesky, Europa Technologies, Tele Atlas and\/or MapLink. The bike data is supplied by Adrian Short and scraped from the TfL website.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/london_3dbikes_3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/london_3dbikes_3.jpg\" alt=\"london_3dbikes_3\" width=\"1353\" height=\"906\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-136\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/london_3dbikes_3.jpg 1353w, https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/london_3dbikes_3-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/london_3dbikes_3-1024x685.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/london_3dbikes_3-140x94.jpg 140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1353px) 100vw, 1353px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adrian Short, provider of one of the main 3rd-party APIs for the Barclays Cycle Hire scheme in London &#8211; the Boris Bikes API &#8211; has<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":135,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[17,27,31,35,52,57,69,70,141],"class_list":["post-134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-data","tag-3d","tag-barclays-cycle-hire","tag-bikes","tag-boris-bikes","tag-cycling","tag-earth","tag-google","tag-google-earth","tag-temporal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2017,"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions\/2017"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}