Locator API

Locator API v2

Given parameters, returns an XML document with <marker> nodes, each representing a RackID from the Chicago Bicycle Parking Program Web Application.

Required Parameters
No parameters are required. Latitude and longitude, if not set, default to a location approximately at State & Madison. The status defaults to 0. Radius defaults to 0.25 miles.

Available Parameters

• lat - any valid latitude
• lon - any valid longitude
• status - 0,1,2
• radius - any decimal value, in miles

"status" is any number 0, 1, or 2, that have the following meanings:
0 - Return all RackIDs, regardless of status
1 - Return only installed RackIDs
2 - Return approved but not yet installed RackIDs

Try it out!

Example URL: http://www.chicagobikes.org/bikeparking/api2.php?lat=41.94919&lon=-87.721136&radius=0.25&status=1

Returned Attributes

• id - Integer
• name - Text
• address - Text
• totalRacks - Integer (sum of all type_Rack fields)
• approved - Integer (0,1)
• installed - Integer (0,1)
• date_installed - YYYY-MM-DD
• historical - Integer (0,1)
• lat - Decimal (latitude of RackID)
• lon - Decimal (longitude of RackID)
• distance - Decimal (distance to user-given coordinates)

The first 500 results, ranked by distance, are returned. No more results are returned because you could construct a query that returns every record in the database and that would tax the server.

Locator API v1

The Locator API searches the Bike Parking Database and returns, via XML, the results based on two inputs: address (Chicago only), and radius (in miles).

Example call:

http://chicagobikes.org/bikeparking/locator_xml.php?address=30%20N%20LaSalle&radius=.5

No other parameters are accepted.

The first 500 results, ranked by distance, are returned. No more results are returned because you could construct a query that returns every record in the database and that would tax the server.