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Re:The largest and most effective bicycle registry ever by pat2man on Monday June 16, 2014 @02:37PM (#7900677)
Great looking site but what makes this "The largest and most effective bicycle registry ever"? There seem to be dozens of bike registries. It would be nice to see some sort of data sharing between them.
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Re:The largest and most effective bicycle registry ever by berkes on Monday June 16, 2014 @03:02PM (#7900818)
> "The largest and most effective bicycle registry ever"

I guess an average Dutch cities municipal "registry" has more bikes than this entire Database at this moment. Though certainly not as "effective" in the sense of being userfriendly. But seeing as that in the Netherlands the police estimates just under one million stolen bikes annually, there is a great opportunity for bikeindex.org in the Netherlands.

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Re:The largest and most effective bicycle registry ever by Someone on Monday June 16, 2014 @03:01PM (#7900816)
They do not give numbers, but I also doubt that "largest" claim.

The USA is a lot larger, but the Netherlands has a national register of every bicycle reported stolen to the police (https://fdr.rdw.nl; very much spartan interface). They do not give numbers, either, but at 100k+ reported bicycle thefts a year and running since 2008, there must be over half a million stolen bicycles in their database. Google tells me that newly sold bikes also end up in that database. I don't see how they would need that data, but the site reportedly _started_ with over 4 million bicycle numbers.

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Re:The largest and most effective bicycle registry ever by minikomi on Tuesday June 17, 2014 @04:06AM (#7903306)
The Japanese registry claims to have 70,000,000 bikes on record in 2007[1].

[1] 自転車産業振興会によると2007年(平成19年)度で全国で7000万台を超えており http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%98%B2%E7%8A%AF%E7%99%BB%E9%...

(looking for a better source than Wikipedia but it eludes me at the moment!)

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Re:The largest and most effective bicycle registry ever by bike_index on Monday June 16, 2014 @02:49PM (#7900743)
That's what we've been working on since we started - and why we're open source and have an open API https://bikeindex.org/documentation/api_v1
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