netstorm84 / brightonmotorbikebays

A web application that displays the locations of Motorbike parking bays in Brighton & Hove, East Sussex

Brighton Bike Bays

Brighton and Hove City Council publish a list of all Motorbike Parking Bays in the City, but only by road name, not an exact GPS location. This is where this Laravel application comes in...

I will be adding the desired features as and when I get time. Please feel free to submit a pull request if anyone has any enhancements.

Contributing

If you would like to contribute to this project, please follow the below steps to get a local version up and running. This repository contains a docker-compose file to get you up and running quickly, to use this you will need to have docker and docker-compose installed.

• Clone the repo to a directory on you computer
• CD in to the directory
• run docker-compose up -d to run the docker-compose file in detached mode
• run composer install --ignore-platform-reqs to download the composer vendor directory
• Add the domain brigthonbikebays.local to you /etc/hosts file.
• run cp .env.example .env to create the environment file
• Log in to the docker containing by running docker exec -it brigthonbikebays bash
• run php artisan key:generate to generate auth keys
• navigate to http://brightonbikebays.local to view the site locally

Database

The Bike Bays are stored in a SQLite database that took me a long time to gather the data for, if you use this data for any other project please attribute the copyright to me.

Current features

• Shows accurate location of bike bay on Google Maps
• Street View image of bike bay
• Different icon depending if the bay has secure locking points

Current application is availiable at the below URL brightonbikebays.magenificent.com

Please Note: The database does not currently contain all bike bays in Brighton, this is being updated as and when I have the time.