Monthly Archives: February 2012

Data Storage Options

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GOOGLE FUSION TABLES
250 MB storage limit per user account, 1 million characters per cell
upload limits—1 MB per spreadsheet, 100 MB per .csv or kml

To get more space, you have to have and work through the Maps API Premier account
Purchase more storage space for Fusion Tables: Google Groups Thread

How to query from google fusion table: Google Dev Guide

CLOUD MINE
Get data storage, user accounts and server-side code with Cloud Mine

FILES ON OUR OWN SERVER
Instructions for parsing data from a .gpx file into processing

Thoughts in Progress: Values, Tech, Splash Page

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Our thought progress after meeting with Willy on February 2, 2012:

VALUES OF OUR RIDERS
1. Altruism & Social Good
selfless concern for the welfare of others

2. Naturally Active Lifestyle
healthy lifestyle, efficiency
“We bike, of course”

3. Adventure & New Experiences
openness to new places and things
love for a place, hunger for life
“Life’s too short for monotony”

4. Connecting with People
sharing life and lifestyle

5. Expressiveness & Creativity
having style
good design, quality products

6. Independence
free of systems and institution

BACKEND TECH
- automate data transfer from email to server
- parse data for processing
- activate processing to render
- display various views: aggregated, groups, individual
- compile stats (ex: distance, time spent riding, neighborhoods covered)
- map views (Brooklyn, Bronx, Manhattan, Staten Island, Queens)
- twitter feed
- notifications for achieved milestones (ex: riding 100 miles, riding for consecutive days, tracking, coloring hoods) and needed encouragement (ex: not riding)

SPLASH PAGE
Name
Tagline
Short Description

1. Choose your color
2. Bike Persona
- Neighborhood Warrior
- Casual Commuter
- Committed Commuter
- Strictly for Pleasure (Leisure Rider)
3. Reserve username with Twitter (or leave email)

BLOG
- Want 6-10 stories by May based on interviews with bikers
- Get a photo of bikers
- Choose meeting points for each biker
- Tie string on handlebars
Interview Questions:
- Tell us about the places you go on your bike (favorite, where you meet people, latest ride)
- What is your take on weather
- Do you try to get your friends to ride?
- Any strange encounters?
- Goals?

From Willy Wong, Week 3

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Notes per our conversation
February 2, 2012, NY & Company

VALUES
Call out the key principles/values that our audience stands for. (ex: lifestyle, pleasure)

State the value propositions:
For riders
- document of bike trips
- share your data for bike advocacy
- engine for exploration and curiosity (needs to be better stated)
Business
- data to advocate for and inform placement of bike lanes
- (more)

The string on the handlebars—a grassroots signifier of riders being involved (using the product) and tracking

NAME
Consider the order and architecture of the language we’re using
Is everything mapped to an artistic act?
What do you call your users?