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 […]
For a bit of fun I realised I could plot the start points of planned journeys on the photomap. I’ve done this for the last 2009:
In its desire to avoid busy roads, the Journey Planner sometimes finds complicated cycling routes that have many turns. We have come to talk of this problem as wiggliness. We’ve started work on changing the journey planner so that it finds a better balance between the quietness of a route and the number of turns. […]
We’ve added a new page: Ways to get involved with CycleStreets. Do get in touch if you can offer any help! PS We’ve just reached the 20,000th photo in the Photomap!
Over the past month we’ve changed the algorithm that searches the map to find routes. It is now much more like the A*search algorithm. The results it produces are identical to those produced previously, but it happens faster. A* is fast because it uses a clever way of minimizing the amount of map it needs […]
We’re pleased to announce that CycleStreets was awarded ‘Highly Commended‘ in the ‘Travel Plan Innovation of the Year‘ category at this year’s ACT Travelwise Awards. Sadly we didn’t make the top slot, but congratulations to Transport for London – Smarter Travel Unit, who won the overall category. Read the full list of award winners on the […]
Thanks very much to John-Paul Shirreffs who designed some flyers for us, at no charge, at short notice. We’ll be taking these, and our new upright banner (thanks to David Earl and Jim Chisholm of Cambridge Cycling Campaign), to the CycleNation/CTC conference and (Friday) Local Authority Day this weekend. Hope to see you there! (Bookings can still […]
Just a short blog post as we’ve been relatively quiet in the last few weeks! Simon in particular has been knuckling down on some new core routing algorithm work which is set to speed up longer journeys in dense areas like London. We’ll blog on this soon, once a key bug has been squashed. We’ve […]
Thank you very much to the very many of you who told us that you recently voted for our project. We were beaten in our region by a group who enable disadvantaged people to gain access to the internet – an equally worthwhile cause – and we wish them great success with their project. During […]
If you have not already voted, and you want to support CycleStreets, please vote today to get CycleStreets some much-needed funding! Thank you to the very many people who have told us they’ve voted for us. Your votes are much appreciated! Also, check out our recently-added features page! Simon, lead developer for CycleStreets, has reached the […]