A Cambridge-based project to improve cycling around the Britain has reached the finals of a national funding contest, GeoVation, run by the Ordnance Survey. GeoVation aims to combine Geography and Innovation to help fund ideas which will help improve transport of various kinds. The bid by Cambridge-based CycleStreets, who run the UK-wide cycle journey planner […]
New ‘cycle to us’ links – techy work in progress
A techy post reporting on some work in progress, and seeking suggestions! … A while back we introduced various new URL formats like: http://www.cyclestreets.net/journey/to/SW1A+2AA/ which would allow someone at that postcode to put a link 'cycle here' on their website. This is designed so that the user needing to plan a journey would just follow […]
Wider use of DfT data
Over the last year and half, the DfT has been collecting cycling data for use in its TransportDirect portal. We received today a letter from Norman Baker MP confirming that it is the DfT's intention to open this dataset, in line with the new government's principles on transparency. We think this is an excellent development. It […]
Adding a CycleStreets route planner to your site
Organisations can already create a simple 'cycle to us' link. However, some larger organisations may like to have a planner embedded in their site directly. So we've published a new page detailing how Local Authorities and cycling promotion bodies can add a CycleStreets route planner to their site. CycleStreets can be added: As a subdomain […]
Going to Glastonbury Festival? Cycle there!
I'm a huge fan of the Glastonbury Festival, the UK's best music and culture festival in the UK. And this area of Somerset is a wonderful place to cycle around. The Festival has plenty of bike culture around – check out these photos of the Festival on our Photomap and this review of Bikes at Glastonbury […]
Through to the GeoVation final!
Last week we took part in the GeoVation Camp at the Ordnance Survey's splendid new HQ in Southampton. It was a fun, if exhausting, weekend. The purpose of the weekend was for GeoVation to narrow down to a final shortlist the ideas that would go to the final. Our proposal is called 'Helping Campaigners Campaign' (a […]
Interested in talking about your use of CycleStreets?
Fancy taking in an exciting new research project? Interested in talking about your motivations and experiences of using CycleStreets? The Ideas in Transit Project at the University of the West of England Bristol is working with CycleStreets to investigate how and why people use CycleStreets and what they think about it. They are searching for […]
CycleStreets – review of the year
Today is our second birthday – CycleStreets was launched on 20th March 2009. The last year has seen a huge amount of development work, leading to new features, speed improvements, and more. However, the next six months will be even busier as the project really ramps up! In the first year, CycleStreets planned 67,000 routes. […]
CycleStreets’ bid to GeoVation shortlisted
We're pleased to announce that our GeoVation bid, 'Helping Campaigners Campaign' has been shortlisted from the 155 ideas submitted to GeoVation! The proposal is for an extensive suite of tools that will really help cycling campaigners around the UK – people who are already enthused – to be more effective in their work. It will […]
Journey planning limit increased to 200 miles
We're pleased to announce that the journey planning limit has been doubled to 200 miles (320km). This is well over a day's cycling! Mobile users should bear in mind that long journeys result in more data being sent over the wire so a slower response should be expected. The generation of the route and its metadata […]