We’re very excited to announce a major new feature on Cyclescape, our online toolkit for cycle campaign groups: integration of planning applications, which we pushed live last week after much work over the last 18 months. Cambridge Cycling Campaign is the group we’ve been testing this with and where the work has mainly been undertaken. […]
Finding out about good cycle routes – where it is safe and convenient to cycle – means availability of good maps and the knowledge of local people about their area. We’ve created a new edition of our community mapping guide, Cycle mapping for cycle routing, freshly updated for 2014. The brochure explains how people can help improve CycleStreets […]
This is a tech post mainly for our OpenStreetMap and techie users! During recent months we’ve quietly been working on a major change behind the scenes in preparation for some large-changes to our web interface (which has long been in need of upgrading) and to prepare for a more mobile-friendly experience: We’ve moved the large amount of our […]
We’ve created a new app for Hackney Council, the Cycle Hackney app. Available for both iPhone and Android, the app aims to provide information to the Council on where people cycle for their daily journeys, and where improvements to the street and path network are most needed. This combines crowsourced GPS traces to help create a heatmap of utility cycle journeys. […]
This blog has been a bit quiet recently, as we’ve been quietly working away very hard on a range of projects which are now being launched. We’ll have blog posts on each of these in the coming weeks: The new Halfords cycle journey planner is live on their website, complementing their wide range of bikes and […]
Our mobile team has been working on updates to our apps recently, and we’ve been working with our designer Ayesha on a modernised icon for the Windows Phone and iPhone apps. During the discussion, Simon (our lead developer) gave a bit of history about the CycleStreets logo, which we thought would be interesting to share. “I can claim to be the […]
The new Halfords cycle journey planner, created by CycleStreets, is live on their website, complementing their wide range of bikes and advice to help people get cycling. The site includes map markers for easy directions to Halfords stores. There’s also a version for the Halfords.ie site: The site has been created using our White Label Sites service.
CTC, the national cycling charity, has launched a new cycling infrastructure map to help communicate what makes good conditions for cycling and where improvements need to be made. CTC have linked up with CycleStreets to ensure these locations are also saved to the CycleStreets Photomap. Chris Peck, CTC, explains this new initiative. What is the […]
CycleStreets has worked with Transition Black Isle to provide an embedded cycle journey planner for their website. Peter Elbourne, project officer for the Million Miles project explains. Transition Black Isle is a community organisation and registered charity that aims to take local action on issues relating to peak oil and climate change. The group decided to […]
The latest update to CycleStreets for Windows Phone is now available. We’ve done some significant work on improving the user interface for plotting routes in the directions screen as well as adding a quicker tap destination and find directions from my current location option on the home screen. We’d really appreciate your feedback on this change […]