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<p>Long ago I wanted to build an app for the local bike sharing system in my city, only to realize open data was not publicly available. Out of frustration, I built a free and open API for others to create applications, visualizations and research using bike sharing data.</p> <p>Fast forward today and thanks to the community, the <a href="https://citybik.es">CityBikes project</a> supports more than 800 cities all around the world and our API powers bike sharing transportation apps across all platforms.</p> <h3>"open" data</h3> <p>Even with the introduction of open data standards like GBFS (at this time, approx 60% of our feeds) there's a fair amount of systems that are not accessible outside of their apps. The reality of open data shatters once you look too close into it: cursed APIs, broken feeds and HTML tables.</p> <p>Our mission is to change that by providing developers, researchers and organizations the tools and resources to bridge this gap.</p> <p>In this talk, I’ll share the motivations behind the project, what it’s like to maintain it after more than a decade, and dive into the new tools and historical data systems we’re building.</p>