Vélimonde

Overview

Rather stupid webapp showing location and availability of automated bike rental stations.

TODO

• Be very kind and try to make it behave OK on hand-held thingies
• Option to disable background to save bandwidth
• Move away from jQuery
• Etc.

Demo

You can check the demo out.

Some say there's a REST API you can use to access a city or station directly.

Getting your own rolling

• Get the code.
• Create the data folder in the Vélimonde root folder.
• Get your API hey here and put it into the update_stations file (if you use git you probably want to use a copy of that file).
• Setup whatever cron program you use to run python update_stations periodically. Make sure to chdir to the Vélimonde root folder.
• Setup your webserver, and ensure that the static and data folders are served directly. Those are separated to make it easier to setup Expires headers since data/* is updated much more frequently. Note that cities.json has a different format than the one served by JCDecaux to speed up lookups.

Licence

This work is license under the likable WTFPL.

The software within, many thanks to them!

• Cookies.js, by Scott Hamper
• LeafletJS
• Flask
• Tango icon theme
• jQuery

The data within, many thanks to them too!

Real time data:

• JCDecaux, under ODC-BY, CC-BY 2.0 license.
• Transport for London, licensing does not allow distribution.
• Keolis Rennes
• LACUB

Map courtesy of OpenStreetMap contributors and OpenCycleMap.