Organisations can already create a simple 'cycle to us' link. However, some larger organisations may like to have a planner embedded in their site directly. So we've published a new page detailing how Local Authorities and cycling promotion bodies can add a CycleStreets route planner to their site. CycleStreets can be added: As a subdomain […]
Today is our second birthday – CycleStreets was launched on 20th March 2009. The last year has seen a huge amount of development work, leading to new features, speed improvements, and more. However, the next six months will be even busier as the project really ramps up! In the first year, CycleStreets planned 67,000 routes. […]
Our new brochure promoting CycleStreets for Local councils around the UK is now available, and hundreds of copies will be posted out this weekend! Naturally, we're keen to see OSM-based CycleStreets used as widely as possible, so that as many people as possible can be helped to start cycling or find better routes. So we've printed […]
We're pleased to announce the launch a customised cycle journey planner for West Sussex County Council! http://cyclejourneyplanner.westsussex.gov.uk/ We hope that this will be the first of many Local Authority sites based on CycleStreets (and thus OpenStreetMap), although quite a number already have links to our main site. Read more about the services we can offer […]
We're about to publish a new glossy brochure to be sent to every local council in England (and soon Wales, Scotland, NI) to encourage them to link to CycleStreets or to create customised versions of the site. For this, we need your help! We've set up a webpage where the cycling/transport department's contact details for each […]
Thanks to the brilliant work of Andy Allan, Richard Fairhurst, Tom Hughes, Dave Stubbs, Matt Amos and others, who have worked on OpenStreetMap's new 'Potlatch 2' editor, we've now been able to add an integrated data editor to the CycleStreets site. Just go to www.cyclestreets.net/edit and you can fix up and add map data directly! We'll be customising the installation […]
We really enjoyed the January Net2Camb Meetup event, where one of our lead developers, Martin, gave a talk 'Our Story'. Thanks to Claire for organising the event and everyone who came! It was particularly enjoyable as it was a rare opportunity to talk about the business and competition aspects of CycleStreets, about the challenges we face, […]
Cycle Cambridge, the cycling section of Cambridgeshire County Council has issued a great new edition of its 'Get Pedalling' publication (Autumn/Winter 2010/11 issue). It features CycleStreets and our iPhone app, alongside updates on cycling schemes in Cambridgeshire.
We’re helping get Cycling Sorted, thanks to a new site we’ve created for Cambridgeshire County Council which has recently been launched! Cycling Sorted is a project run by the Cycle Cambridge team at Cambridgeshire County Council to find out where you would like to make improvements to cycling facilities in Cambridge and the surrounding villages, in terms of new […]
We've received several enquiries from Local Authorities recently about using CycleStreets in some way. We're busy creating a set of pages, including a demo site, for Local Authorities to explain various options available to them, including: Hosted versions of CycleStreets within the Council house style Simply linking to us (which of course is free, and […]