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only works for london. plus there is no way thats accurate, only shows 10 for london.
it sometimes shows some taxis, most of the time it doesn't…

currently showing just a feew (2-3) cabs in london which probably is incorrect (like kevingibbon also noted).

apart from that it's slightly annoying you start zoomed at some street level when you pick a city (in my case london as that appears to be the only one having data…). if you're exposing your own location it would make sense to zoom in at street level, but if you're not i think an overview of the selected city would make more sense

That is because of the load of the Uber server. Also afaik (the api doesn't explain) it only shows available cabs, i'm currently seeing around 20 in London.
"it only shows available cabs"; that indeed would explain the rather small amount of cabs and the difference in the # of cabs after refresh…

nice project btw. reminded me of the traintimes one http://traintimes.org.uk/map/tube/

and you might want to have a look at your auto-refresh feature as it keeps firing ajax requests regardless of the previous one being finished or not…