What is needed for implementing Bikeep in similar manner as Bikely

[tsobuskerudbyen]

Please have a look: https://docs.bikeep.com/#overview. How much work is needed here? Can this then be done in OTP as well?

[leonardehrenfried]

Is Bikeep is a service for locking and unlocking parking facilities? If so then it's very much outside of what we (as the maintainers) see as in-scope for OTP.

What we could do is get the locations from their API and display them on a map or do routing with them in OTP.

I have colleagues in Germany that are maintaining an open source stack for these bike lockers. If you want I can put you in touch.

[tsobuskerudbyen]

For the moment we just want to look into displaying information about the bike lockers on sykkelveier.no, just like Bikely is currently displayed – with: location, how many available, and some basic text info.

[tsobuskerudbyen]

Norwegian translations:

• BIKE_HOUSE = "Bikeep sykkelparkeringshus" (Not the same app as Sykkelhotell, hence we name them differently)
• PRIVATE = "Bikeep sykkelstasjon" - We should, per now, reuse the normal cycle parking symbol here then. And add number of available private stations of course. One location for a single bike is called: "Bikeep sykkelstativ"

Icons used in the app for reference:

[tsobuskerudbyen]

@leonardehrenfried Back from Easter holidays. Can you please link OTP ticket with this ticket?

[tsobuskerudbyen]

OTP: opentripplanner/OpenTripPlanner#5798 - "Add Bikeep bicycle parking updater"

[Beck-berry]

Norwegian translations:

• BIKE_HOUSE = "Bikeep sykkelparkeringshus" (Not the same app as Sykkelhotell, hence we name them differently)
• PRIVATE = "Bikeep sykkelstasjon" - We should, per now, reuse the normal cycle parking symbol here then. And add number of available private stations of course. One location for a single bike is called: "Bikeep sykkelstativ"

The tags that are used (and that I found so far): "PRIVATE", "FREE", "BOOKABLE", "BIKE_HOUSE", "BIKE".
There are locations that can be BIKE_HOUSE and PRIVATE at the same time, so I would advice not to change icons and legend based on this, only add the tag data as a description at the popup.
What do you think, @tsobuskerudbyen? Do you know, what all of these mean? If it's ok for you, we'd need descriptions for all the tags.

[tsobuskerudbyen]

Yeah, I see the confusion here. As far as I know the BIKE_HOUSE takes precedence, as it contains x numbers of PRIVATE stations inside. Icon on the first: Are there any "house with a bike in it"? Something like this:

Copied from: Cycle icons created by manshagraphics - Flaticon

Also, see the light green icon from the app screenshot over. Looks a bit strange that is has a person on the bike.

[Beck-berry]

As I mentioned earlier, we can create a switch in the legend for separate layers only. Both bikehouses and private parkings have the same switch: bikeep parkering. Since the switch works for both type of bike parkings (bike house and private), I would suggest that we do not use different icons for them, because it could confuse users; only show the difference in the popup. It is understandable of Bikeep to make a difference between its own services, but we display many different layers already.
Anyways, I will check how the legend/switch handles if there are multiple icons for a layer and come back to this.

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Added different icons for bikeep:
at the legend:

at the map:

Added its own popup:
if a private parking:

if a bikehouse: