At long last, we can now accept donations! Donations will help us develop new features, pay for new server equipment to increase the speed of the system, and to improve functionality by paying for non-Free data sources (e.g. the Postcode Address File – see blog posting to follow). In a month or so we’ll be […]
CycleStreets doesn’t yet have full postcode searching, though we at least take the first half of an entered postcode to get you to the right area, when doing a namefind search. We are currently using the excellent service from the great guys at Cloudmade. Unless there is a massive surge of donations (!) we simply don’t have […]
A WEBSITE based in Cambridge which plans cycle routes anywhere in the country has been shortlisted for a regional award. CycleStreets was created earlier this year by two cycle-campaigning web developers in Cambridge, building on the success of an earlier system for the city which had planned almost 50,000 journeys. Cyclists can visit www.cyclestreets.net and […]
We are pleased to announce that Simon, lead developer for CycleStreets, has reached the shortlist for the East Anglian section of the TalkTalk Digital Heroes Digital Heroes awards! If won, this would be worth £5,000 of much-needed funding for CycleStreets, an OpenStreetMap-based project. Please vote for Simon as our ‘Digital Hero’ if you like CycleStreets, and […]
We’ve just rolled out tagging, amongst a number of other improvements we’re now finalising for the Photomap. When you add/edit a photo, you can now add tags (keywords). These will automatically get linked to other photos with that same keyword. They will also be listed in the tag list. We’ve seen quite an increase recently […]
We've just given a couple of talks at State of the Map '09. Lots of great talks from a wide range of people in the OpenStreetMap community!
We’ve got some great new banners that you can use to link to us: http://www.cyclestreets.net/promote/ Thanks to Ayesha for these banners! Banner 3 HTML: <p><a href=”http://www.cyclestreets.net/” title=”CycleStreets.net – for cyclists, by cyclists: plan cycle routes around the UK and add photos”><img src=”/images/banners/cyclestreets3.jpg” width=”468″ height=”60″ style=”border: 0;” alt=”CycleStreets” /></a></p> Banner 2 HTML: <p><a href=”http://www.cyclestreets.net/” title=”CycleStreets.net – […]
We’ve now added a tabbed interface to the various photomap pages, as part of a drive to improve the user-friendliness of the photomap side of the system and increase the discoverability of its features. For instance, see the new tabs on a photo page like http://www.cyclestreets.net/location/9351/ which is one of my favourite pictures!) You can […]
Just a quick note to say that you can now follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/cyclestreets and join our Facebook page if you are on that network.
Over the last month we’ve been beavering away fixing bugs and working through the list of features that didn’t quite make it into our beta launch, as well as spending time improving the routing to deal with problems that have been pointed out to us. Simon, our ‘routemaster’, has recently blogged about some of the improvements […]