We’re giving a talk to Green Enterprise, in Cambridge, today (Monday 28th January 2013). Themes covered in the talk will include: Who we are What we provide A bit about how the journey planner works OpenStreetMap and data collection Volunteer data collection Open-sourcing Funding Competition Big projects Challenges for the future Do come! Full details […]
Seasons greetings to all our users. Happy cycling! Many thanks to everyone who has helped with coding and other ways with CycleStreets this year, or sent in a donation. Lots of plans for 2013 :)
Got our iPhone app yet? Download it free from the App Store. We’ve rolled various updates recently, thanks to the hard work of our volunteer developer, Neil Edwards. Walking sections on a route are now shown as dotted sections iOS6 transit routing support – a direct link from the Apple Maps app Location lookup screen […]
We’ve contributed a two-page article to London Cycling Campaign‘s London Cyclist magazine – sent to all its members – on OpenStreetMap. (Do join LCC if you cycle in London!) The article introduces the LCC journey planner that we created for them, and talks about how it uses OpenStreetMap, a project that cyclists can contribute to. The […]
As part of ongoing efforts for the England Cycling Data project, we’ve been keen to get visualisations done, to show the extent of the data and to show where merging needs to be done. Shaun from ITOworld – who are experts in the collection, management, analysis and presentation of complex transport data – has been working […]
We’ve issued version 2 of our iPhone app! Get it free from the iTunes App Store. It adds several great new features, including the ability to see a range of route choices and switch between them easily. What’s new? Once a route is planned you can swap its type (fastest/quietest/balanced) directly You can now mark […]
The England Cycling Data project aims to incorporate open data on cycling infrastructure released by the UK’s Department for Transport into OpenStreetMap. We’ve started taking account of a greater range of information about cycle routes in OpenStreetMap (the project from which our routing is created). In particular, taking account of surface quality, barriers, traffic calming, and lighting […]
Which roads in London would you like to Go Dutch? Add your suggestions to London Cycling Campaign’s map submission system that we created for them recently: This is one of a number of customised views we have created of our Photomap, making it easy to request and collection locations of problematic areas around cities. If […]
CycleStreets has been using elevation data for several years to help avoid un-necessary hills in planned routes. The elevations we use are interpolated from open data surveys that provide an estimate of the height of the ground above sea level. The results of the processing can be seen in the elevation profile of every route planned […]
The announcement today that Google are to include Sustrans cycle routes alongside other transport modes is welcome confirmation that cycling is becoming more mainstream. Pitching the various transport options side-by-side will allow people to discover that, for instance, a 3-mile journey across a city can be much quicker to cycle than to drive. Making cycling […]