Mar 31, 2019, 3:51 AM by [email protected]:

> Hi all,
>
> A new bicycle-sharing scheme called MEVO has just (sort of) started in Poland.
> It consists of 660 stations, which function like regular bicycle stands (no 
> active parts).
>
> The bikes are station-less, which means they can be left in almost any place 
> in the city except excluded zones (albeit for a small extra fee). The normal 
> intended usage is to leave them at stations, which is verified by GPS 
> geofencing. This implies that people may (and they did) leave more bicycles 
> than there are stands at some stations.
>
> How should we map the number of stands, if it's not really a measure of 
> capacity?
> One mapper that mapped them went with e.g. capacity="5 stands", but this 
> doesn't seem elegant or parsable to me.
>
I would just move regular capacity, like with usual bicycle parkings.

For example https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bicycle_parking_stand_1.jpg 
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bicycle_parking_stand_1.jpg>
has capacity for 2 bicycles (one on each side) so bicycle parking with a single 
stand
would get capacity=2

Yes, it is possible to attach more if one really tries (sometimes much more), 
but 
it in regular use it has capacity for two.

The same with this stations - if it would have 5 stands with place to park one 
bicycle on
each side it would get capacity=10

capacity="5 stands" is problematic as it may mean that there is space for 5 
bicycles
(because stands are too close), 10 (standard inverted U stands) or 30 (large 
spiral stands)
or 100 (large stand formed into shape of letters, each letter big enough to 
work like
single inverted U stand).
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