colour stations on map according to bike availbility/free parking about openbikesharing

[bparmentier]

Thanks for all your suggestions!

This is in my todo list. I was thinking of making the bike in two colors (red/green or whatever) to show the bike availability/empty slots (like a progress bar) and clicking on it would pop up a bubble with more information (see the osmbonuspack project for the bubbles).

[svennevz]

Hi,

What about a toggle mode bettween the to phases of a bike trip. Finding a Bike, the color or progress represents the availability of bikes. Finding an empty slot, the color or progress represents the slots availability.

Hope it helps.

[bparmentier]

What do you think of something like this?

There are four five states. The algorithm is as follows:

double ratio = freeBikes / (freeBikes + emptySlots);
if (freeBikes == 0) {
    // marker0
} else if (freeBikes >= 1 && ratio <= 0.3) {
    // marker25
} else if (ratio > 0.3 && ratio < 0.7) {
    // marker50
} else if (ratio >= 0.7 && emptySlots >= 1) {
    // marker75
} else if (emptySlots == 0) {
    // marker100
}

[svennevz]

I think it does the job, it's really showing the station state like a tank gauge. Having the marker25/marker75 steps at limite of 1 will force you to look at the detail, because very few slot/bike is a risky station to go to. But knowing your trip phase, you can focus on the 3 other safe states. I see 5 states, BTW.

[bparmentier]

I also added a sixth state (see. commit 50bfc7e) showing if a station is closed.

I personally prefer this method over a toggle mode, which adds an additional step.