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GBFS

The General Bikeshare Feed Specification: dock and vehicle availability in a format anyone can read. It is why a bike-share system appears in apps its operator never built.

How this list is decided. Membership is not a field an editor set: it is every published entry whose own text names GBFS, matched at build time, with the sentence printed under each row so you can judge the match yourself. 14 entries in 14 cities.

✔ Every published entry is checked against the public sources it cites before publication.

Where it appears in the atlas

🇨🇴 Bogotá Bogotá's Shared Bike System (Tembici) since 2022 · Media

Because the city bought nothing, it holds nothing: the only live data is a GBFS feed on the operator's own platform, and that feed declares no licence, no terms of use and no attribution.

🇫🇷 Bordeaux Bordeaux Metropole DataHub: 562 Datasets Under the Licence Ouverte since 2011 · Official

Beyond the catalogue the portal serves live feeds under the same terms — bike-share station status in the GBFS standard, road-traffic counts, roadworks and real-time parking occupancy.

🇺🇸 Boston Bluebikes: Bike Share Owned by Thirteen Municipalities since 2011 · Official

What is actually published, and it is thinner than the peers: trip files quarterly rather than monthly, with trip duration, start and stop time, start and end station name and ID, bike ID and user type, staff service trips and rides under 60 seconds removed, plus station files and a live GBFS feed.

🇦🇷 Buenos Aires BA Ecobici: Free for Residents, and the City Pays the Operator since 2010 · Official

The city publishes every trip record from 2010 onward on its open-data portal under CC BY 2.5 Argentina, while the operator's live GBFS feed carries no licence, no terms and no operator field at all.

🇺🇸 Chicago Divvy: City-Owned Bike Share & Open Trip Data since 2013 · Official

What is actually published: monthly trip files with start and end time, start and end station and rider type (member, single ride, day pass), with staff trips and trips under 60 seconds removed, plus a live GBFS station feed.

🇺🇸 Houston Houston BCycle Bike-Share (2012–2024) 2012–2024 · Media

Houston Bike Share, a nonprofit launched with city backing, started Houston BCycle in May 2012 with 18 bikes at three docking stations and grew it to more than 150 stations and roughly 900 bikes/2,200 docks by FY2022, reporting over 300,000 rides in its peak year — every station published live bike-and-dock counts t…

🇫🇷 Montpellier Montpellier Open Data Portal and Real-Time API since 2016 · Official

Example of a live feed published onward to the national mobility data platform in GBFS format, updated every minute — evidence that the real-time layer is consumed outside the Métropole's own portal.

🇨🇦 Montreal BIXI Montréal: city-owned bikes, non-profit operator, operator-held data since 2009 · Official

Real-time GBFS station feed on the city portal, publishing organisation listed as BIXI Montréal, carrying the identical IP notice: 'la paternité des données doit être attribuée à BIXI Montréal'.

🇫🇷 Nantes Naolib Real-Time Transit Feeds: SIRI Adopted, GTFS-RT Dark since 2013 · Independent

Alongside the real-time services Nantes Métropole publishes GTFS, NeTEx stops and NeTEx offer files, plus GBFS feeds for four separate shared-mobility operators.

🇺🇸 New York City Citi Bike Docked Bike Share & Open Trip Data since 2013 · Official

Citi Bike publishes monthly trip-level data and a live GBFS feed, but under a bespoke licence that forbids redistributing the dataset.

🇧🇷 Rio de Janeiro Bike Rio: the bike share a city sold rather than permitted since 2011 · Media

The operator owns the bikes and carries the revenue risk, and it holds the data — the public GBFS feed names no operator, no licence and no terms, and still ships the placeholder system name "kitchen".

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🇨🇱 Santiago Bike Santiago: a bike share that shrank from 14 comunas to 5 since 2013 · Official

A public GBFS feed gives live station availability, but it declares no licence and there is no archive of trip records.

🇧🇷 São Paulo Bike Sampa: a bike share the city permits rather than buys since 2012 · Media

Registry row: "BR,Bike Itaú — Sampa,São Paulo,bike_sampa,...,1.1 ; 2.3 ; 3.0" — confirms the São Paulo feed is a registered public GBFS endpoint, distinct from Tembici's other city systems.

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