Our mobile app is nearing completion. Unfortunately the schedule slipped by a month as we were keen to complete our backend work to ensure the routing was fast enough to support it, something that is now in place. Also, we've been held up slightly by EXIF-related issues (so that uploaded photos get the correct position […]
In town somewhere unfamiliar and don’t know how to get home? Want to avoid a hilly area for your cycle journey? Know about main roads but don’t know the quiet route home? Found somewhere that needs cycle parking or infrastructure improvements which you’d like to tell others about? An iPhone app has been the number-one […]
Short video clips can now be added to the photomap. Here’s an example of Simon getting his feet wet on the flooded section of the public bridleway next to the Cambridgeshire busway. Videos can be up to 50 MB in size, and may include sound. Formats currently supported are MOV, AVI, WMV and FLV. They […]
Internet Explorer 8 has a useful new feature called ‘Accelerators‘. We’ve created an Accelerator for the CycleStreets photomap search. It basically gives you a one-click search for photos for a given bit of text. To get our Accelerator for IE8, go to our Search page, click on the blue install button. Then confirm, ideally clicking on the […]
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’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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]