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Ever stood at the door wondering whether to run for the bus or grab a share bike instead? Nearby Nextbike shows you exactly where the bikes are right now.
It puts a live map on your TRMNL, centred on your front door, showing every bike within a twenty minute walk. Walking distances are drawn right on the map, based on your map settings. Filled pins are stations, hollow pins are bikes someone parked on the street, and a small number on a pin means several bikes in one spot. If almost nothing is close by, arrows at the edge of the map point to bikes just out of frame, with the walk time and number of bikes in that direction. A bike four minutes past the edge is still worth knowing about if you were heading that way anyway.
Prefer words to pictures? Set "What the screens show" to *Text*. Instead of a map, you get the closest bike, where it is, and how long it takes to walk there, which works especially well in cities with station based bike sharing.
Works anywhere nextbike operates: over 200 systems in 21 countries. Many run under local brand names, so you may already be using nextbike without knowing it.
Germany:
MyRadl (Munich), KVB Rad (Cologne), VAG_Rad (Nuremberg), Frelo (Freiburg), Bre.Bike (Bremen), VRNnextbike (Rhine-Neckar), KVV.nextbike (Karlsruhe), euregiobike (Aachen), Potsdam Rad, wupsiRad (Leverkusen), UsedomRad, StadtRad Greifswald, MV-Rad, and nextbike in Berlin, Leipzig, Hannover, Düsseldorf, Kassel, Wiesbaden, Marburg, Gießen and the Ruhrgebiet.
Austria:
WienMobil Rad, Stadtrad Innsbruck, city bike Linz, VMOBIL Rad, VVT REGIORAD Tirol, nextbike Klagenfurt and Niederösterreich.
Poland:
VETURILO 3.0 (Warsaw), Łódzki Rower Publiczny, METROROWER, Toruński Rower Miejski, Opole Bike, BIKER Białystok and many more city systems.
Czechia and Slovakia:
nextbike in Prague, Brno, Ostrava, Liberec, Hradec Králové and dozens of smaller towns, plus nextbike Bratislava, Arriva Bike and BikeKIA.
Spain:
Bilbaobizi, MálagaBici, BiciPalma, AMBici, bizkaibizi, moxsi (Las Palmas), Lovesharing (Canary Islands), nextbike León.
Elsewhere:
Bajs Zagreb and city systems across Croatia, Nomago Bikes (Slovenia), Styr & Ställ (Gothenburg), Vélhop (Strasbourg), VéloCité (Mulhouse), nextbike Bergamo, TubaBike (Barcelos), Santander Cycles Milton Keynes, nextbike Stirling, nextbike Belgium, Cyprus, Latvia, Greece, Romania, Bosnia and Kosovo.
If your city's system is not listed, try it anyway. The plugin reads nextbike's live directory, so new and rebranded systems work without an update.
Available settings
Your address
Street, house number, city. The house number matters more than you would think, because without it the lookup lands in the middle of the street, and on a long street that is the wrong end of it. Coordinates work too if you have them, like 48.1014,11.5585. Whatever you type here is also shown in the title bar.
Example: Marienplatz 1, Munich
What the screens show
Map shows you where nearby bikes are standing giving you multiple options to chose from, and more context. Text simply directs you to the nearest bike, in type you can read from across the room.
Which way you travel
A river, a motorway or a rail line can put the nearest bike on paper half an hour away in real life. Tick only the directions you would genuinely walk and the plugin stops offering you bikes that are located in the other directions. Leave them all unticked to look all around you. Anything within about 150 m is highlighted regardless of the directions you chose, because at that range you can see it.
How far to show
How far the map reaches, from you to the nearest edge of the screen. Bikes beyond the edge are still found, and when the map is nearly empty they get an arrow pointing the way with the estimated walk time.
Walking time rings
Dashed circles at five, ten and fifteen minutes of walking, giving you a better guess how far that bike on the map is actually away. Turn them off if you prefer to see the clean map.
Which bikes
Count classic bikes, electric ones, or both. If you only ever ride one kind, you only ever see that type. Some systems do not publish which is which, in those cases we are showing both.
Language
Show title bar
Turn it off to give the map every last pixel.
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