does anyone know if there is an app for the Iphone that has a listing of bike racks in Canada and the USA? This would be a cool app because instead of riding around looking for a rack, the app would tell you where the rack closest to where you are going is, it would also be cool if the app let you know how many racks there were and whether they were full and how many spaces were left.

Is there an app for bike racks?

Unfortunately, I can't even find a map of public bike racks in my town. Can't imagine that such a thing would exist at the international level with any kind of accuracy.

Bike share systems have these kinds of apps because the racks or kiosks have some smarts in them and can communicate their status. Normal racks don't would depend on people sending updates which couldn't be relied upon.

Someone could create an app that would let folks add the location of racks that they know about, how many spaces they have and how full they typically are. A comment area would be nice so that others could provide further details saying perhaps that the rack had been moved or that it's almost always full unless you get there early. An app like that might exist but I don't know of one.

As an alternative you could use something like Google Street View to get a feel for where it is you're going and if you're likely to find a reasonable place to lock up your bike.

Thanks, I never thought about using street view. I sometimes use Google maps to find a route.

Google street view can be wildly outdated however. streets and buildings change all the time. make sure to check the date of the images for street view (upper left box)