We’re pleased to announce the availability of a new brochure that we’ve done for Cycling Scotland, aimed at motivating people to get mapping for OpenStreetMap. Cycle mapping for cycle routing with OpenStreetMap – the new community mapping guide – explains how you can get involved. Cycling Scotland is the national cycle promotion organisation for Scotland, working to […]
Interested in sharing your views and experiences of CycleStreets and other web-based travel information? The Ideas in Transit Project at the University of the West of England Bristol is working with CycleStreets to investigate people’s use of CycleStreets and other web-based travel information. The project is looking at the ways in which people use technologies […]
This is a guest post from ViewRanger, who have just added our routing system to their products. They write about ViewRanger and their use of our routing API. ViewRanger is the mobile app that will turn your smartphone into a complete Outdoors GPS. It’s become the choice of walkers, cyclists, mountain bikers, and for many […]
We’re working on a major project, Cyclescape, a comprehensive online campaigning toolkit for UK cycle campaign groups, funded thanks to GeoVation. This blog post is cross-posted from the Cyclescape blog. About three weeks ago we opened up Cyclescape to a test group, Cambridge. Their Committee have been using the system instead of the e-mail list they […]
We’re holding a CycleStreets for Android Hack Day on Saturday 25th February 2012. Come along, because it’ll be fun. Dive in So what might you do with the Android app? Well, anything you like, but here are some suggestions – export a CycleStreets route as GPX, integrate a vector mapping library like MapsForge, add speech output, […]
A new version of our Android app has been released, bringing with it our most-requested feature – waypoint routing! The full list of new additions is: A to B to C routing (waypoint/via-point routing) Changes to Add Photo to prevent duplicate uploads Routing finding should now work on all 3G networks Thanks as ever to […]
We’re working heavily at present on our open-sourcing initiative. Already our mobile apps and the Cyclescape project are open-source: iPhone (iOS) app Android app (on which we’ll be having a hack day soon – possibly in February) HTML5 mobile web app Cyclescape campaign group toolkit (plus deployment) If you can help with any of those, or […]
As previously announced, we are working with the UK’s Department for Transport to make advanced cycling data attributes available for incorporation into OpenStreetMap. Rather than organising this along the lines of a bulk import, we are taking advantage of new technologies in Potlatch 2 and have commissioned Andy Allan, creator of OpenCycleMap, to develop new features to […]
We’ve had a busy year, and we’d like to thank everyone who has helped out with the CycleStreets project – whether that’s helping with development, design, promotion and word-of-mouth, mobile coding, and more. As you can see, since our launch in March 2009, usage has grown very considerably this year. We’ve planned almost 1.4 million […]
This is a guest post from Carlton Reid, executive editor of BikeBiz.com and the editor of BikeHub.co.uk. He writes here about the great new facilities in the Bike Hub app, which uses our routing and OpenStreetMap POIs feed. The latest version of the Bike Hub cycle satnav app is 2.2; I’m currently testing 3.0, due […]