Use Open Data to get to know the city!
Publication Date/Time
2017-09-13T09:00:00+00:00
Open Data and cycling
Over the years, bicycle touring has been becoming an increasingly
popular alternative for tourists who are visiting different cities in
Europe. More and more European cities offer bike rental services
allowing tourists to discover the city in an environmental-friendly
and healthy way. Open Data can provide a further stimulus to the use
of bicycles in general and more specifically to bicycle tourism. For
instance, the European Data Portal provides 255 search results for
"bicycle" and offers a variety of datasets what can be used for the
development of applications in this field

The Spanish city of Valencia for instance provides bicycling
itineraries
[https://www.europeandataportal.eu/data/en/dataset/http-datos-gob-es-catalogo-l01462508-carril-bici],
showing cycling routes throughout the city. The city also provides
information on public parking spots
[https://www.europeandataportal.eu/data/en/dataset/http-datos-gob-es-catalogo-l01462508-aparcabicis]
for bicycles, providing for instance information on the number of
bicycles available for rent.
[https://data.europa.eu/sites/default/files/img/media/get-to-know-valencia.png]
 

Also for other cities similar information can be found. This dataset
[https://www.europeandataportal.eu/data/en/dataset/cycle-hire-and-hub-locations1]
for instance provides information about cycle hire locations in
Nottingham, whereas this dataset
[https://www.europeandataportal.eu/data/en/dataset/https-nkod-opendata-cz-zdroj-datova-sada-37085493]
provides information about cycling facilities in the Czech Republic,
including data on dangerous crossings and light signalling equipment.
This dataset
[https://www.europeandataportal.eu/data/en/dataset/stadtrad-stationen-hamburg]
shows the number of bicycles available for lending in Hamburg,
Germany.

When cycling through a city, you may want to use Open Data
applications. For instance, the application Kiss My Bike
[/sites/default/files/use-cases/use_case_italy_-_kissmybike.pdf]
tracks your bicycle location in case the bicycle is stolen, and the
application I Bike CPH
[/sites/default/files/use-cases/use_case_denmark_-_i_bike_cph.pdf]
helps you to find your way through Copenhagen.

Do you want to find out whether bicycle data is available for your
city? Then take a look at the European Data Portal's catalogues and
browse through the available datasets
[https://www.europeandataportal.eu/data/en/dataset]!
