I had some time off my client work recently so I decided to build an app for the Citi Bikes that have just been installed all over NYC recently. I went for a ride and quickly found that all I really wanted was an app with not only the Citi Bike docking locations but also the NYC bike lanes. It seems that most of the apps currently on the app store have been built by New Yorkers who are already familiar with the streets of NY and also avid cyclers. In response I built this app “Citi Bike for Travelers”, the only free app on the iTunes App Store that has both the docking locations and the NYC bike lanes:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/nyc-citi-bike-for-travelers/id673646206?mt=8
I’m planning on doing a tutorial soon that shows how i parsed the KML data and overlaid it on a map in iOS.
Niklas Persson
Hi
Just downloaded your app, nice one!
I am currently investigating how to plot cycle paths in the iOS mapKit but I can’t figure out where to get that data. How did you do it in NYC?
Regards
samkeeneinteractivedesign@gmail.com
Hey Nikals,
Thanks for the download. You can obtain NYC bike maps from this site http://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/about/datafeeds.shtml#bikes they have various shp and kml files for bike related geo spatial data. You can then use the KML file with MapKit to overlay the path. NYC gov has many other open data sources that you should check out and play around with: http://www.programmableweb.com/api/nyc-open-data