[Talk-GB] Dockless bike hire

Edward Catmur ecatmur at googlemail.com
Fri Oct 1 15:25:19 UTC 2021


It isn't a company thing; it's a local authority thing. That is, it will
depend on location.

On Fri, 1 Oct 2021 at 16:21, Steven Hirschorn <steven.hirschorn at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I wasn't aware that dockless bikes have designated (preferred?) parking
> places since the demise of Mobike (and even Mobikes could be left anywhere,
> so the designated locations were more to do with where the operator would
> park them when they redistributed them)
>
> EScooters on the other hand have to be dropped off in designated locations
> so I've been using amenity=escooter_rental in the absence of a better more
> specific tag. This is a newish service (in the UK at least) so I don't feel
> like new tags are inappropriate.
>
> What company are using dockless bikes that are meant to be parked in a
> specific location?
>
>
> On Fri, 1 Oct 2021, 14:54 Mat Attlee, <mattattlee at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> What's best practice for mapping dockless bike hire points? I stumbled
>> upon a few of these last night in central London eg
>> https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/111929823
>>
>> The ones I found were a designated bay on the footpath or road, clearly
>> marked with "dockless bike hire", and mostly had e-scooters.
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