Plings is a great site helping young people (13-19 yr olds) discover amazing activities and inspiration. They've added a great new feature to their site, which adds automatic but customised 'Cycle there' links to every one of their listings! (And of course, young people are exactly the kind of people we want to see getting […]
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CycleStreets, the cycle journey planning people, will this year be publishing a photo a day – from the CycleStreets Photomap containing over 25,000 cycling-related photos submitted by our users. Either by checking the front page of the site, or by following the @CycleStreets channel on Twitter, people will get our selection of the best photo […]
Cycle Cambridge, the cycling section of Cambridgeshire County Council has issued a great new edition of its 'Get Pedalling' publication (Autumn/Winter 2010/11 issue). It features CycleStreets and our iPhone app, alongside updates on cycling schemes in Cambridgeshire.
We're speaking at the Net2Camb meetup event, on the subject of 'Building CycleStreets'. It should be a really enjoyable and social evening; do come along! The talk will be suitable for both non-technical and technically-minded people alike. For more details, and to sign up, go to: http://www.meetup.com/Net2Camb/calendar/15827958/ (it's free!) About the event: CycleStreets is the UK-wide cycle journey […]
This is a guest post from Carlton Reid, executive editor of BikeBiz.com and the editor of BikeHub.co.uk, who commissioned and helped designed the great new Bike Hub app which uses our routing! Following on from his first guest post, he writes about version 2.0 of the BikeHub satnav & bikeshop-finder iPhone app. I'm a Mac […]
The first draft of a formal spec of our mobile app has been published, for potential volunteer developers. See: http://www.cyclestreets.net/mobile/CycleStreetsMobileAppSpecification.pdf It basically describes the functionality as exactly as possible of the iPhone app, to make conversion to other platforms easier. If you can help develop our apps, which are on GitHub, with the GPL license, please […]
We were delighted to discover today that CycleStreets is featured as the default front page item on the government's relaunched data.gov.uk website! CycleStreets uses four main open datasets: OpenStreetMap, consisting of data collected by people all around the UK to make a brilliant and versatile map dataset (this is not a government dataset though!) OS […]
CycleStreets is launching a funding drive to enable routing improvements and a large number of feature requests to be undertaken. Our key target is for £90k to enable funding to pay for two full-time development positions for 18 months, plus smaller miscellaneous funds. With this, we believe the project will then be self-sustaining. CycleStreets is set up on […]
Dogfooding, for those who haven't come across the term, is programmers' jargon for 'trying out your own product', i.e. eating your own dogfood! While cycling around in London recently I made use of two great cut-throughs, thanks to our iPhone app and the great mapping done by OpenStreetMap folk. These are the kind of cut-throughs for […]