- Help cyclers in Princeton make the most of it, especially newcomers!
- Produce planning relevant information to make Princeton even better for cyclers. Some context: Philly has 500 users for 1.5M inhabitants. Pton has 30k inhabitants, at the same ratio that's 10 users. Not planning relevant! so any Princeton planning app has to be well liked.
- Baseline is give people easy access to some resources, and allow to report trips to DVRPC.
- Shows maps of: bike racks, bike share etc. Use OSM as citizen evolved data repo.
- Help people decide routes. Common is shortest path; other options are user planning, or suggest spots to pass through.
- Sports/tracking: miles, speed, elevations. Graph'em, upload to existing sites, compare to others. Beeminder integration? other APIs?
- Allow (or even elicit) reporting of bike relevant stuff:
- New bike rack, broken bike rack, full bike rack (app shows next nearest)
- Pothole, car on bike lane, difficult intersection or other danger.
- Into Access Princeton? API?
- Community accessible, mapped DB?
- Games:
- Earn points for covering new routes
- For giving feedback
- For chiming in on others reports
- Utility to convert GPX or KML file to the JSON file format that Cycle Philly server receives, reach out to users of existing devices (gateway drug to our app! ;) )
- If you bike a lot, and use some apps or would consider it, welcome to join in!
- Any experience in Android programming would be great! Web stuff is also likely.
- Graphics/design skills.
- Writers: someone needs to read some links and write a short guide to cycling in Princeton (with links to more detail)
- Experience with GIS related formats/software including just using it, especially OSM but others too.
- People knowledgable about transit/cycles/bicycle in Princeton.
- Invite yourself to Slack: https://slackinvite.me/to/codeforprinceton
- Join the #cycing channel: https://codeforprinceton.slack.com/messages/cycling/
- https://github.com/mendhak/gpslogger kit: tracks your location in a battery-saving manner.
- https://github.com/PhillyOpen/Cycle-Philly-Android Reports trips to DVRPC
- http://www.cyclestreets.net/mobile/android/ A non-open source app that is interesting
- http://www.dvrpc.org/asp/bikemercer/ Mercer County Bike Map
- https://github.com/crvanpollard/DVRPC-geodata includes the Mercer County Bike Map in shapefile format and other datasets.
- http://opentrips.phl.io/ an open trip planner (combined public transport and biking)
- Princeton Pedestrian and Bike Advisory Committee (PBAC) website and blog: http://www.princetonnj.gov/bicycle.html http://pjpbac.blogspot.com
- PBAC mailing list - reaches over 200 people.
- West Windsor Bicycle Pedestrian Alliance
- Princeton Free Wheelers Facebook page. Princeton Freewheelers is a local bike club.
- 'Bike Princeton' Facebook page
- Relevant OSM tags: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:amenity%3Dbicycle_parking and http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:amenity%3Dbicycle_rental for bikeshare
- OSM based services http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/List_of_OSM-based_services such as CycleStreets
See the file PlanningProcess.md for what we know about how trips can get used.