As part of ongoing efforts for the England Cycling Data project, we’ve been keen to get visualisations done, to show the extent of the data and to show where merging needs to be done. Shaun from ITOworld – who are experts in the collection, management, analysis and presentation of complex transport data – has been working […]
We’ve issued version 2 of our iPhone app! Get it free from the iTunes App Store. It adds several great new features, including the ability to see a range of route choices and switch between them easily. What’s new? Once a route is planned you can swap its type (fastest/quietest/balanced) directly You can now mark […]
The England Cycling Data project aims to incorporate open data on cycling infrastructure released by the UK’s Department for Transport into OpenStreetMap. We’ve started taking account of a greater range of information about cycle routes in OpenStreetMap (the project from which our routing is created). In particular, taking account of surface quality, barriers, traffic calming, and lighting […]
Which roads in London would you like to Go Dutch? Add your suggestions to London Cycling Campaign’s map submission system that we created for them recently: This is one of a number of customised views we have created of our Photomap, making it easy to request and collection locations of problematic areas around cities. If […]
The announcement today that Google are to include Sustrans cycle routes alongside other transport modes is welcome confirmation that cycling is becoming more mainstream. Pitching the various transport options side-by-side will allow people to discover that, for instance, a 3-mile journey across a city can be much quicker to cycle than to drive. Making cycling […]
We’re pleased to announce a major new version of the CycleStreets Android App (version 1.4), our fourth update in just over a year. It brings a great new feature … Offline maps! Download the app update and install the map pack now! Up until now, the CycleStreets app has had to download maps as it needed them. As you move […]
We’ve created a customised cycle journey planner for the Samsung Bike Week website. We hope you’re enjoying Bike Week, and using it as an opportunity to spread the joys of cycling! Each event has a new ‘Plan your route to the event’ link, which pre-fills the destination box, making it even easier to promote events […]
We’re making good progress on this, after a stalled attempt to sort things out back in March when a busy period then struck. Our previous update has some background on this overall initiative. Firstly, we’re planning a Developer Day in late summer – more news soon. The last month or so has seen significant refactoring of some […]
Jez, the Lead Developer of our Android app, writes: The CycleStreets Android app when live a year ago yesterday. At the end of that first day there were a mighty 4 of what the Android Market calls “active device installs”. As of June 19, there are 10,089. Over the first six months, installs climbed pretty quickly for […]
CycleStreets gets lots of useful feedback, both on details of routes we provide and on system features. The quality of reported route feedback bugs is generally fairly high – users tend to give enough detail to enable the problem to be investigated properly. Simple “The route was problematic here” feedbacks are very rare. The feedback system we […]