Mar 31, 2019, 4:20 AM by [email protected]:

> On 31/03/19 12:51, Michał Brzozowski wrote:
>
>> 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'd go with the number of stands.
> When I do a car park .. I do the number that have spaces, I do not count the 
> cars parked outside those spaces! Reason, those outside the spaces 
> inconvenience at least the rest.
> Same with tent sites.
> The capacity should be about what it is built for, what is legal.
>
Note that stand capacity for bicycles varies wildly. Just in my city there are 
stands
with capacity of a single vehicle and giant "art" ones fitting more than 20.

I would tag how many bicycles comfortably fit, like with bicycle parkings.

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