> data Citibike makes available is often inaccurate (shows bikes or open slots when there aren't any)
I'm not certain if you're seeing the same thing I am, but I've tracked the inaccuracy of the data for citibike back to an abnormally long refresh time when the app loads. So it preloads whatever the last view of the system is, and displays that as the truth, while it loads a new one in the background, which takes sometimes as long as 60 seconds.
So I could see that looking like it's displaying inaccurate data, because it's unclear that it's refreshing the data.
I'm not certain if you're seeing the same thing I am, but I've tracked the inaccuracy of the data for citibike back to an abnormally long refresh time when the app loads. So it preloads whatever the last view of the system is, and displays that as the truth, while it loads a new one in the background, which takes sometimes as long as 60 seconds.
So I could see that looking like it's displaying inaccurate data, because it's unclear that it's refreshing the data.