rebecca-palmer
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6 years ago duplicate of #190 , sorry
It was decided in #324 that free-floating bikes should not be treated as 1-bike stations, but is still undecided how they should be treated.
Open rebecca-palmer opened 6 years ago
rebecca-palmer
commented
6 years ago duplicate of #190 , sorry
It was decided in #324 that free-floating bikes should not be treated as 1-bike stations, but is still undecided how they should be treated.
rebecca-palmer
commented
6 years ago Duplicate of #190
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As far as I can find (though I might be mistaken), pybikes does not currently include any dockless systems, though there are several that have APIs (1 2). Is this a deliberate choice, or a general lack of much development since such systems became common?
If it is a choice not to, I suggest documenting that, closing requests to add them (#303 #304), and linking to somewhere that does (Multicycles? did this industry effort ever get anywhere?).
If they are to be included, there is the question of how to represent them:
238 has a patch that treats each available bike as a 'station' with 1 bike and 1 space, which is probably the best option for compatibility with existing user code.
It could be useful to also have a field that marks a system as dockless, and/or specifies the boundary within which dockless returns are permitted, so e.g. a routing app can know that returning at your actual destination is an option.