{"id":67,"date":"2011-02-23T21:49:02","date_gmt":"2011-02-23T21:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mappinglondon.blogs.splintdev.geog.ucl.ac.uk\/?p=67"},"modified":"2014-02-05T12:48:27","modified_gmt":"2014-02-05T11:48:27","slug":"brilliant-boris-bikes-animation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/2011\/brilliant-boris-bikes-animation\/","title":{"rendered":"Brilliant Boris Bikes Animation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some of us at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/casa.ucl.ac.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">CASA<\/a> can&#8217;t get enough of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tfl.gov.uk\/roadusers\/cycling\/14808.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Barclay&#8217;s Cycle Hire <\/a>data. We have had\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/oobrien.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ollie<\/a>&#8216;s\u00a0hugely successful\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/oobrien.com\/vis\/bikes\/flow.php\" target=\"_blank\">flow maps<\/a>, journey<a href=\"http:\/\/spatialanalysis.co.uk\/2011\/01\/07\/boris-bikesbarclays-cycle-hire-average-journey-times\/\" target=\"_blank\">time heat maps<\/a>, and now the the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/sociablephysics.com\">Sociable\u00a0Physicist<\/a> himself, Martin Austwick has created this stunning animation of the bikes.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Boris Bikes redux\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/19982736?h=d2961ca7df&amp;dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"780\" height=\"439\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\nThe TFL data release contained the start point, end point, and duration for around 1.4 million bike journeys. An educated guess has been made about routes between stations using\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openstreetmap.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">OpenStreetMap<\/a> data and some routing\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.routino.org\/software\/\" target=\"_blank\">software<\/a>. The animation shows the scheme&#8217;s busiest day (thanks to a tube strike) and provides an amazing insight into the dynamics of Boris Bike users. You can find more info\u00a0<a href=\"sociablephysics.com\" target=\"_blank\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I suspect this animation will be another big PR win for TFL, it is just a shame that it took a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.whatdotheyknow.com\/request\/one_million_barclays_cycle_hire\" target=\"_blank\">freedom of information request<\/a> to get the underlying data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of us at\u00a0CASA can&#8217;t get enough of the\u00a0Barclay&#8217;s Cycle Hire data. We have had\u00a0Ollie&#8216;s\u00a0hugely successful\u00a0flow maps, journeytime heat maps, and now the the\u00a0Sociable\u00a0Physicist himself,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[27,35,756],"class_list":["post-67","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-data","tag-barclays-cycle-hire","tag-boris-bikes","tag-visualisation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2893,"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions\/2893"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}