Ruby script to pull the ~450 stations on NYC's draft Citibike station map for use in creating a shapefile. Created for the purpose of adding the bikeshare station locations to an Urban Planning GIS Project
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Save result of http://a841-tfpweb.nyc.gov/bikeshare/get_tentative_bikeshare_points as a .json file
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Run getstations.rb using result file from 1 as an argument, outputs csv with station id, lat, and lon
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Run getdetails.rb using result of 2 as an argument, outputs csv with id,lat,lon,user_profile_url, and reason (the last two correspond to the racks's location and description
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Clean up result of 3 in excel, import to GIS and geocode lat/lon
Results of this process on 3/3/2013 included in this repo as shapefile and kml