Some CycleStreets contributors have said that adding photos to the photomap can be rather addictive. We’ve been working on a new feature that can help make this process even easier and potentially more accurate for those who have a GPS (Global Positioning System) device. Use the GPS to record a track while you’re out photographing. […]
We added a way of saving a cycle route to a GPS device following requests when we demonstrated the system in Manchester in May. We have changed this now, so that: Both the Quietest and Fastest routes are included in a single exported .gpx file. Only the first point on each street is named. Previously […]
Our regular imports of data from the openstreetmap.org (OSM) project now includes ways that are marked as ferry crossings. For the UK, this amounts to around 250 links. Here’s an example where the quietest route uses the ferry, but the fastest goes a longer way round on the roads: http://www.cyclestreets.net/journey/70755/ The hours of operation and […]
Work has begun on restoring one of the most popular features of the original Camcycle version of the CycleStreets Journey Planner. Photos-en-route (PER) selected images from the photo library that corresponded to the direction of travel of the planned cycle journey. The images were displayed in among the route list, but also as a slide-show, […]
Currently we’re finding that about 1% of users who plan a journey are leaving us feedback about their routes. If the feedback comes directly from the route listing page, then that route is immediately marked as requiring our attention. We try to look at the route as soon as possible alongside your comments. We then […]
We’ve designed the Journey Planner to find practical, direct routes, mainly aimed at shorter urban journeys. But we’ve had a growing number of requests for longer or circular routes. The journey length is limited at the moment to help keep our website as responsive as possible (because long routes take up a lot of computing […]
The Cambridge Cycling Campaign journey planner went live in the early hours of 27 June 2006. Back then it based its routes on a network which was traced over satellite photos of the streets of Cambridge. That network started off with only around 2,000 streets, and that provided a way for users to join the […]
Since CycleStreets went to national beta release in late March this year it has been used to plan over 10,000 journeys, despite our staying a little bit quiet for a few months while we’re in beta! (This builds on the almost 50,000 journeys that were planned during the previous two and a half years when the system […]
At the workshops we held on CycleStreets at a cycling promotion conference in Manchester last weekend we had many requests for more features. The most popular was to provide a way of saving the journeys produced so that they could be used on hand-held GPS devices. We’ve done that now, and so each journey planned […]
All the various ways of listing photos are now relevant to your area, which we hope will be useful for groups all around the country to help them campaign on issues. This means that you will only see photos in the listings that belong to the host city or area you are browsing. For instance […]