Earlier this year Seismograph released an interesting map showing Where Your Bicycle is Most Likely to Get Stolen inward San Francisco. The map plots the location of every bike theft reported to the San Francisco police pull inward 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 divulge the fourth dimension in addition to engagement of each bike theft. Seismograph besides furnish a useful bar nautical chart that shows you lot at what fourth dimension of solar daytime your bike is virtually probable to popular off stolen.
Judging past times the map it mightiness hold out a adept persuasion non to green 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 inward 3 bikes. They in addition to hence left the bikes inward 3 Swiss cities Bern, Geneva in addition to Zurich in addition to waited for them to hold out stolen.
Over 40,000 bikes a twelvemonth are stolen inward Switzerland every twelvemonth in addition to the Le Matin Dimanche were interested to encounter what happens to these bikes 1 time they are stolen. By tracking the stolen bikes the paper was interested to abide by out what sort of people bag bikes in addition to what they exercise amongst their stolen bicycles.
Using the GPS information from the stolen bikes they were able to exercise a StoryMap for each city, plotting the get of each bike inward the days afterward its theft.
In Geneva the get-go fourth dimension the bike was stolen it was taken to a Cash Converters store in addition to sold for 200 Francs. The director of the store revealed that the thief was a regular seller of bikes. Le Matin Dimanche in addition to hence placed the bike exterior a police pull station to encounter if that would deter the bike thieves. It was shortly stolen again.
The get-go theft of the bike left inward Bern ended upward inward a woman's garage. The paper retrieved the bike from the garage's owner. She claimed that the bike had been abandoned at that spot in addition to she was planning to study the stolen bike to the police. In Bern the bike was besides stolen past times a fifteen twelvemonth erstwhile schoolboy who claimed that he persuasion the bike had already been stolen in addition to he did non think to proceed the bike.
In Zurich the bike was stolen past times a homo described past times locals every bit a 'drug addict' in addition to sold to a cabaret dancer for l Francs.
