I travel a lot on business as a Developer Advocate for Redis Labs! I'm not much of a car guy, so when I have some free time, I prefer to walk or bike around a city. Many of the cities I've visited on business have bike share systems that let you borrow a bike for a few hours. Most of these systems have an app for renting bikes, but they only share the details of their system. This got me thinking: using publicly available bike share information to build an "app" showing you global information would be a fun way to demonstrate the geospatial features of Redis. With that GeoBike, the Redis bike share application was born.
GeoBike incorporates data from many different sharing systems, including the CitiBike Bikeshare in New York City. We are going to take advantage of the General Bikeshare Feed provided by Citi Bike system and use their data to demonstrate some of the features we can build using Redis to index geospatial data. The CitiBike data is provided under the NYCBS Data Use Policy.
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