View Larger Map – Map of bike parking facilities in Portland.
Portlander Darrick Wong has heeded the City of Portland’s call to make useful applications with its mountains of open-source data on city services and infrastructure.
Using the bike parking dataset, Wong has developed a Google Map-based tool that shows the location of bike parking facilities throughout Portland. Users can click one of the map’s red arrows for location and more detailed information about each facility.
In an email to the Shift list this morning, Wong wrote: “At some point it would probably be useful to connect this to smartphone geolocation services so you can see parking near you, but here’s a
first pass to see what sort of reaction this generates, if any.”
So, what do you think? Should Mr. Wong keep working on this so folks can use it on their smartphones? Maybe if enough people chime in with encouragement, he’ll consider turning this into a mobile app.