New Tracking The Bike Thieves

Earlier this year Seismograph released an interesting map showing Where Your Bicycle is Most Likely to Get Stolen inwards San Francisco. The map plots the location of every bike theft reported to the San Francisco constabulary inwards 2013.

The map uses an interesting arrangement of concentric circles to demonstrate locations where to a greater extent than than 1 bike was stolen. You tin mouse-over the private circles to let on the fourth dimension together with appointment of each bike theft. Seismograph likewise render a useful bar nautical chart that shows you lot at what fourth dimension of twenty-four hours your bike is close probable to become stolen.

Judging past times the map it mightiness endure a practiced persuasion non to commons your bike on Market Street, at the Ferry Building or exterior Mission BART.


Swiss paper Le Matin Dimanche has taken a dissimilar approach to mapping bike thefts. The paper hid GPS tracking devices inwards 3 bikes. They hence left the bikes inwards 3 Swiss cities Bern, Geneva together with Zurich together with waited for them to endure stolen.

Over 40,000 bikes a twelvemonth are stolen inwards Switzerland every twelvemonth together with the Le Matin Dimanche were interested to run across what happens to these bikes 1 time they are stolen. By tracking the stolen bikes the paper was interested to honor out what sort of people bag bikes together with what they do amongst their stolen bicycles.

Using the GPS information from the stolen bikes they were able to do a StoryMap for each city, plotting the campaign of each bike inwards the days subsequently its theft.

In Geneva the start fourth dimension the bike was stolen it was taken to a Cash Converters store together with sold for 200 Francs. The director of the store revealed that the thief was a regular seller of bikes. Le Matin Dimanche hence placed the bike exterior a constabulary station to run across if that would deter the bike thieves. It was presently stolen again.

The start theft of the bike left inwards Bern ended upwards inwards a woman's garage. The paper retrieved the bike from the garage's owner. She claimed that the bike had been abandoned at that topographic point together with she was planning to study the stolen bike to the police. In Bern the bike was likewise stolen past times a xv twelvemonth sometime schoolboy who claimed that he persuasion the bike had already been stolen together with he did non intend to give-up the ghost along the bike.

In Zurich the bike was stolen past times a human being described past times locals every bit a 'drug addict' together with sold to a cabaret dancer for fifty Francs.

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