Bixi is an amazing project.
This project was started to create tools for a better iphone app. I don’t want to be sued though :)
A better map would:
-provide better icons that show if a station has available bikes or parking spots -overlay bike paths -keep layers in their own kml files for better reuse
Bixi’s kml files are downloaded every 5 minutes by a cron job, and rsynced to my computer. They’re saved in processing/data
The only useful thing right now is the animation done with ruby-processing.
Ruby-processing doesn’t play nice with Nokogiri or Hpricot, so I convert each file to something that can be easily loaded. Run: > rake biximo:marshal_kml
then to launch the animation: > cd processing > rp5 live map.rb
If I have more time, I’ll re-do the KML, and add bike paths. If Bixi wants to share more data, more interesting things could be done :)
Tracked here: www.pivotaltracker.com/projects/17713