/tags/qgis/ Recent content in Qgis on staticnotes.org Hugo en-US Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /posts/london-bike-data/ Wed, 15 Jul 2026 12:00:00 +0000 /posts/london-bike-data/ <p>London has a great rental bike scheme that makes it easy to get around the city. Rather than free-floating you can rent bikes from fixed bike stations like the one shown below. If you get the yearly membership you even get a key that you can use to rent the bike without an app.</p> <div class="highlight"><pre tabindex="0" class="chroma"><code class="language-python" data-lang="python"><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="n">Image</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">filename</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s1">&#39;map_images/station_photo.jpg&#39;</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">width</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s1">&#39;400px&#39;</span><span class="p">)</span> </span></span></code></pre></div><p> <img src="output_1_0.jpg" alt="jpeg" /> </p> <p>Moreover, Transport for London make the live rental station data available on <a href="https://tfl.gov.uk/tfl/syndication/feeds/cycle-hire/livecyclehireupdates.xml" target="_blank" >this endpoint <span style="white-space: nowrap">&thinsp;<svg style="height: 0.7em; width: 0.7em; padding-left: -0.2em;" focusable="false" data-prefix="fas" data-icon="external-link-alt" class="svg-inline--fa fa-external-link-alt fa-w-16" role="img" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 512 512"> <path fill="currentColor" d="M432,320H400a16,16,0,0,0-16,16V448H64V128H208a16,16,0,0,0,16-16V80a16,16,0,0,0-16-16H48A48,48,0,0,0,0,112V464a48,48,0,0,0,48,48H400a48,48,0,0,0,48-48V336A16,16,0,0,0,432,320ZM488,0h-128c-21.37,0-32.05,25.91-17,41l35.73,35.73L135,320.37a24,24,0,0,0,0,34L157.67,377a24,24,0,0,0,34,0L435.28,133.32,471,169c15,15,41,4.5,41-17V24A24,24,0,0,0,488,0Z"> </path> </svg> </span> </a>. I collected hourly snapshots of bike availability data over a month so I can play around with it with DuckDB&rsquo;s new spatial features and QGIS.</p>