At present, we've a couple of areas of work that we've been prioritising, to address known weaknesses with the system. Firstly, we've been working to reduce the 'wigglyness' of some routes. The problem is that the journey planner engine does not yet take account of turn delays. Once this is finally rolled out, routes will […]
Cambridge resident and democracy activist, Richard Taylor has written today about a Freedom of Information request he made recently on the subject of the government’s efforts to create a Cycle Journey Planner, available through the Transport Direct portal. For the avoidance of doubt, Richard is not involved with CycleStreets, though our database shows he has […]
(… or indeed, any other point of interest!) We’ve just had a feedback posting asking how a bike shop can be added to the map. Anyone can add data to OpenStreetMap. Having just replied to the user, I thought it would be useful to turn the reply into a blog entry. If you have an iPhone, the […]
Easter came early this year! In the last few days there has been a blaze of activity around the long-awaited changes by the Government to the way the Ordnance Survey’s data is controlled. A significant number of its excellent datasets have been freed up, which we think is excellent news for the UK geographical community. […]
We’ve rolled out an improvement to the journey planning engine which should mean it returns the route solutions about a third more quickly than before. It’s still not as fast as we would like, but we have plans to make a major change this coming month or so which we believe will make a much […]
We’re pleased to announce that CycleStreets has just been awarded a grant of £1,000 from the Co-operative Community Fund, towards boosting our server capacity, which is great news. We’d like to the thank the Co-op for their support. This is a significant boost in our forthcoming efforts to scale up the system towards a full […]
When launching our site as a beta a year ago, we adapted an off-the-shelf design for the design of the site. This has stayed in place ever since. However, based on feedback over the last year, and our own experiences as both users of the site and as user interface designers, we know that it […]
Today (20th March 2010) is our first anniversary – we launched a year ago today, 20th March 2009. We’d like to thank everyone that has been involved in any way in CycleStreets, and we look forward to a real take-off of the project as it matures in coming months and years.
The government has been running a consultation on proposals to open up Ordnance Survey’s data relating to electoral and local authority boundaries, postcode areas and mid scale mapping information. We have responded: Our response to the Ordnance Survey data consultation The key points we make are that: Without change, Ordnance Survey is at considerable risk of […]
As well as adding postcode search support recently, we’ve this week we’ve upgraded the general street/place finding system (called a ‘geocoder’). We’ve moved to using the new Nominatim system (technical details for those interested) by Brian Quinion – thanks to him and anyone else involved in that project. Some tips for quicker searches are: If […]