We're pleased to announce the availability of a new domain name to access CycleStreets pages via shortlinks – useful for adding to Twitter and other messages. http://cycle.st/ will redirect to the main site, as will all URLs in the same pattern, e.g. cycle.st/about There are also short links for journey plans and Photomap URLs: http://cycle.st/j20000 […]
CycleStreets, the UK-wide cycle journey planner website, today reached a new milestone: a third of a million cycle journeys planned. Route 333,333 was a typical cross-city route, in Cambridge. The 333,333 journeys amounts to 3.85 million km of route planning – that's an awful lot of cycling! This is also the equivalent of cycling to the moon […]
Our iPhone app has now been open-sourced and available on GitHub under the GPL version 2 license! Roadmap – project team needed! A few weeks after the initial release of the app, a crashfix release (1.01) was issued. We've not heard of any more crash reports since. In terms of a roadmap (no pun intended!), […]
We're riding again, with the leaders of the pack, in TalkTalk's annual "Digital Heroes" awards. This is a competitive award scheme, which if we win would bring a much needed investment of £5,000 to the project. Every penny would be used to improve the website to make it easier to use and produce better quality […]
We're proud to announce the launch of a website we helped create for London Cycling Campaign: www.cycleparking4london.org.uk specifically, the 'suggest a location' page. The design of the site and other content is by LCC itself. The site enables members of the public to submit suggestions of places needing cycle parking, which will then be used […]
Many thanks to all our users and supporters who voted for us recently in the Future Friendly Awards. Voting amongst the entries was apparently 'nail-bitingly close'. Sadly, we didn't win, but congratulations to The Project Group whose excellent project won the £10,000 bursary. We were pleased to learn from one of the Future Friendly organisers that […]
We're really thrilled by the response to our iPhone app and the other apps using our routing. What is also just as pleasing is seeing people discovering OpenStreetMap as a result, and saying that they're interested in getting involved. OpenStreetMap is the brilliant open data map that provides the data that CycleStreets and other projects use. […]
Since we released our iPhone app a few days ago, we’ve had a quite a number of enquiries about other platforms. The funding that helped pay for the iPhone app included in large part a sum to develop the routing API generally, so mobile apps on a whole range of platforms now are possible. We […]
Cambridge, 22nd September 2010 CycleStreets, the community-based UK cycle routing people, have today released their much-anticipated CycleStreets Journey Planner & Photomap app for iPhone. And it’s free! www.cyclestreets.net/mobile Created by cyclists, for cyclists, the free iPhone app is the nearest thing to a SatNav for cycling, enabling people to plan journeys anywhere in the UK with an innovative and […]
The nearest thing to a SatNav for cycling is now available on your iPhone. Download it from the App Store now – for free! And it's free! Our OpenStreetMap-based routing, for cyclists by cyclists, is now available on the move, complete with full placefinder, tap-to-set and with turn-by-turn directions. Read all about it on our […]