robbi5
commented
5 years ago ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
IANAL, but if you have never installed the app, or never seen the Terms of Use - the API itself doesn't display terms of use - what should happen? I personally know multiple academic and "just for fun" projects that are scraping bike and scooter data and doing analysis and other interesting stuff with it. Because position data of rentable bikes & scooters is not personal user data, there really should be no problem to use the data.
Even more so, this whole repository only exists because the providers didn't fully understand yet that Open Data in the Mobility Sector benefits the whole society. So, in my opinion: Feel free to use it, have fun and do interesting and creative research with it - and talk about it, share your research and help to create better mobility for all of us :)
Can we collect lime bike data and use it for academic purposes? I notice this in the agreement:
Subject to Your strict compliance with this Agreement and the Additional Terms, Lime grants You a limited, revocable, non-exclusive, non-assignable, non-transferable license to download (temporary storage only), display, view, use, play, and/or print one copy of the Content (excluding source and object code in raw form or otherwise, other than as made available to access and use to enable display and functionality) on a personal computer, mobile phone or other wireless Device, or other Internet enabled Device (each, a “Device”) for Your personal, non-commercial use only.
This license does not include any resale or commercial use of the Services or its contents; any collection and use of any product listings, descriptions, or prices; any derivative use of the Services or their contents; any downloading or copying of account information for the benefit of another merchant; or any use of data mining, robots, or similar data gathering and extraction tools.