Where Do Stolen Bikes Go?

Re:Where Do Stolen Bikes Go? by thoughtsbykean on Sunday April 09, 2023 @08:48AM (#35502235)

cool line visuals using mapbox. Will need to look into how that is done

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Re:Where Do Stolen Bikes Go? by kylebarron on Sunday April 09, 2023 @09:40AM (#35502628)

The line visuals at the bottom are not using Mapbox for the data rendering. Rather they're using the open source Kepler.gl [0], (a user-friendly wrapping of the deck.gl library [1]). These can use Mapbox for the underlying basemap, but the data rendering is done separately.

(This is easy to tell if you look at the page source. The map at the bottom is an embed from a static HTML kepler.gl map [2]). Disclaimer: I've contributed to deck.gl

[0]: https://kepler.gl/

[1]: https://deck.gl/

[2]: https://senseable.mit.edu/bike-trafficking/assets/kepler.htm...

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Re:Where Do Stolen Bikes Go? by denton-scratch on Sunday April 09, 2023 @08:56AM (#35502286)

I didn't like the presentation at all. I'm not on a mobile device; the amount of information on the screen at one time is tiny, like one sentence, and the UX is unpredictable.

I think it's the result of the "mobile first" dogma, when you don't follow through with "desktop second". IME, "mobile first" usually degenerates into "mobile mainly".

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Re:Where Do Stolen Bikes Go? by neogodless on Sunday April 09, 2023 @08:59AM (#35502314)

I felt the same way and I am on mobile.

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