Re:I visualized the entire history of Citi Bike in the browser
by freemanjiang on Wednesday January 07, 2026 @06:06PM
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In Lyft's defense, they are providing it anonymized under the NYCBS Data Use Policy. They also aren't providing the exact GPS routes, which is why OSRM is used to calculate the shortest path instead.
Re:I visualized the entire history of Citi Bike in the browser
by jeffbee on Wednesday January 07, 2026 @06:54PM
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I don't see anything problematic about start-end pairs from one public facility to another.
Re:I visualized the entire history of Citi Bike in the browser
by tennysont on Wednesday January 07, 2026 @11:10PM
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This data is mandated by NYC law: https://intro.nyc/local-laws/2015-99
I've heard that releasing these sorts of data sets help competitors do market research, and thus mitigates "winner takes all" forces. NYC also tends to be fairly pro-public-datasets: https://data.cityofnewyork.us/browse?%3BsortBy=most_accessed...
In Europe we often accept pretty grave restrictions of our liberty like the UK's Online Safety Act, which would never fly in the US, and we do so without much public comment.
On the other side of things, organisations in the US happily expose datasets like this one, which would give a most EU Data Protection Officers a heart attack, and nobody bats an eyelid.