Add field city in station_information

[hbruch]

What problem does your proposal solve?

Currently, gbfs supports declaring street/cross_street/post_code of a rental station in station_information, but not city (see this slack discussion).

What is the proposal?

Add OPTIONAL field city to station_information.

Is this a breaking change?

• Yes
• No
• Unsure

Which files are affected by this change?

station_information

Other options considered

The concept of regions could be used to provide information on the city/political jurisdiction a station is located in, but that might conflict with usage for other zoning schemes, like neighborhoods or economic zones, as stated in the spec. In addition, I'm only aware of a few providers which use regions.

[richfab]

Thank you @hbruch for raising this issue and opening a PR 🙏

It seems like a good idea to be able to indicate the city where the station is located.

A vote will be opened 7 days after the PR was created as per the governance.

[richfab]

I hereby call a vote on this proposal. Voting will be open for 10 full calendar days until 11:59PM UTC on Thursday, November 28, 2024.
Please vote for or against the proposal, and include the organization for which you are voting in your comment.
Please note if you can commit to implementing the proposal.

[cmonagle]

+1 from Transit.

[futuretap]

+1 from Where To? / FutureTap.

[tobsesHub]

+1 from Raumobil.

[testower]

+1 from Entur

[morten-skelmose]

+1 from VOI

[richfab]

I missed the 2 day announcement last week, so here it is.

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Please vote for or against the proposal before 11:59PM UTC on Thursday, December 5, 2024, and include the organization for which you are voting in your comment.
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[richfab]

This vote has now closed, and it passes!

Votes in favor:

• Transit (consumer)
• Where To? / FutureTap (consumer)
• Raumobil (consumer)
• Entur (producer)
• Voi (producer)

There were no votes against.

This change will be part of the next MINOR release, planned in May 2025, as per the version release cycle in the governance.

Thank you for your involvement in the GBFS spec 🙏