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[–] tyler@programming.dev 14 points 4 days ago (1 children)

What an absolutely fantastic photo to show the difference between cars and bikes.

[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Open street map even has the exact numbers for you. Well at least for the bikes. I roughly counted 80 car spots and considering most cars only move one person thats around a 8:1 space efficiency difference.

[–] Humanius@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

I'm not sure if that number is correct.

I counted the bikes at the request of @tyler@discuss.tchncs.de
My rough estimate is about 1200 bikes, so that is closer to 1:15.

Idk if the entire lot has bike racks or if there is just a lot of flat ground with not infrastructure. But even if there are racks everywhere, people will always just park their bikes randomly into the smallest gap. The osm data could just be out of date ofcourse, but its probably just based on the number of bike racks/bars. Thats the only way you could reasonably map it imo.