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Mapping Bike Parking in Madrid

Every public bike-parking rack in Madrid, mapped — with BiciMAD stations overlaid.

I got tired of hunting for somewhere to lock up my bike around Madrid. So — taking advantage of the Ayuntamiento’s extreme bureaucracy, and the mountain of open data that comes with it — I mapped every public bike-parking rack in the city into a single web interface. It can show the data on either OpenStreetMap or Google Maps, which scratches an old pet peeve of mine.

The natural next step came from a second, recurring problem: I ride my own bike, but my partner uses the BiciMAD bike-sharing scheme. So whenever we set off on a two-wheeled adventure, we need to find a BiciMAD station and free public parking in the same spot. Using the General Bikeshare Feed Specification (GBFS), the map now overlays both datasets at once.

Public bike-parking racks across Madrid, with live BiciMAD availability overlaid — on OpenStreetMap or Google Maps.

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