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 […]
Thanks to a grant (see our earlier blog posting) from Cambridge Sustainable City (part of Cambridge City Council), we have now added full postcode searching. Postcode searching is clearly an expectation of users, and our data suggests some users have given up doing journey plans at all – on the assumption that the lack of […]
Google have just launched bike routing in various cities around the United States, after involving the cycling community there. A few people have asked us (and our US-based equivalent, Ride The City) what we think. The simple answer is that more availability of bike routing is a good thing. There is undoubtedly space for CycleStreets, Google and […]
Here are final details for our Developer Day this Saturday. We’ve had to amend the location as there are more people than we expected – which is great news! If you plan to come, please let us know if you’ve not already been in touch. Time and place Date: Saturday 6th March 2010 Time: 10.30am […]
We are delighted to announce that CycleStreets has been awarded a Cambridge Sustainable City grant, of £3,200, to cover a range of improvements. Cambridge Sustainable City is an initiative of Cambridge City Council, who are one of a number of Local Authorities who are now linking to CycleStreets from their website transport pages. (We hope […]
As previously posted, we’re going to have a Developer Day. The date has been set as 6th March, as that seemed to be the date that most people can do, and it gives us a little bit more time for preparation. We’re not sure we’ve got everyone’s e-mail who plans to come, so please do […]
We’ve now firmed up plans for our Developer Day, to be held in the coming month. We’ve had various kind expressions of interest from people wanting to get involved at a more technical level, either in terms of programming or the OpenStreetMap-related aspects, and we thought this would be a good way of helping that process […]
We’re planning to hold a Developer Day soon. We’ve had various kind expressions of interest from people wanting to get involved at a more technical level, either in terms of programming or the OpenStreetMap-related aspects, and we thought this would be a good way of helping that process along. It will be held in Cambridge […]
We’ve now added a Street View facility to the itinerary listing pages. We think this will really help people to visualise the routes planned in many urban areas. Many thanks to George Coulouris, who wrote the main code to integrate this facility into CycleStreets. To use it, just go to an itinerary listing, e.g. Itinerary […]
We’re pleased to announce that the CycleStreets Cycle Journey Planner today reached a milestone of 100,000 journeys planned. (Well, actually it was 99,999 – we added the next one to reserve the number!) How long till 1 million? … :)