The popularity of riding bikes has been rising for years, and has soared during the pandemic, for a number of reasons including health, economic, and social & environmental. Developers wanting to create applications around cycling should check out ProgrammableWeb’s top nine APIs for Cycling.
Chances are if you live an urban, suburban or even rural area, you have noticed an increased amount of cyclists on roadways and trails in the last few years. The popularity of riding bikes has been rising for years, and has soared during the pandemic, for a number of reasons including health, economic, and social & environmental. The health benefits to cycling include increased cardiovascular fitness, increased joint mobility, decreased stress levels, better coordination, increased muscle strength, weight lost via burned body fat, improved posture, and improved balance. The economic benefit to cycling for transportation are obvious; bikes are less expensive than cars and pubic transportation, and not needing gas is free. The social & environmental benefits to biking include decreasing traffic, decreasing carbon emissions, cutting noise pollution, saving space with parking, using less resources for manufacturing purposes, less rubber, reduced water pollution from motor oils and antifreeze, and less animals killed on the road. Developers wishing to create applications for cycling and cyclists need the proper APIs to get the job done. A Cycling API is an Application Programming Interface that enables developers to collect data about cycling, bikes, cyclists and related topics, and use that data in their own applications. In this article, the top nine APIs from the Cycling category in the ProgrammableWeb directory are detailed, based on web page visits.
