Jez Higgins is the lead developer of our Android app. Here he writes about getting involved in the project. Until Christmas last year, I'd never even thought of writing software for an Android phone. Yet within a month of googling "Android development quick start" I was committing code to the CycleStreets Android app. This indicates two […]
CycleStreets makes heavy use, as many people will know, of OpenStreetMap data as the basis of our street/path network for route planning. For us, the ability of the community of cyclists and others to contribute to this data is an important part of the effectiveness of CycleStreets. But, lesser-known, is that we also make use of several OS […]
We’re pleased to publish an updated specification for the campaigner toolkit, following consultation with groups. There’s been lots of useful feedback submitted by e-mail, twitter, blog replies, and in meetings we’ve had. These comments were turned into about 5 pages of bullet-points for working into the spec. Many of the points raised were useful points […]
We're aiming with CycleStreets to provide the highest possible quality cycle routing, to give people trust in routes they plan. We've heard from many users how our routing is helping them give the confidence to use a bike for their journeys, and from people who've discovered cut-throughs and safer, easier routes for their existing journeys. […]
As we announced recently, CycleStreets is one of the winners of the GeoVation contest, with our bid for a comprehensive online campaigning toolkit to assist cycle campaign groups around the UK. The first phase of this project is finalising a specification for the toolkit. Here is the description of what it will do. This outlines what the toolkit will […]
We're pleased to announce the launch of our updated iPhone app – version 1.5. So what's new? Well, it's mainly a tidy-up release (looks prettier!) with a few new features. We've also been getting the app ready so we can add new stuff next. The itinerary shows route summary details – a much-requested feature Addition […]
We've got some great new promotional flyers done! They're in a z-fold format. To order some, just use the order form. Thanks to Ayesha Garrett who has, yet again, done some great design work for us and who is a real pleasure to work with. Thanks also to Frederik Ramm, whose great OSM leaflets provided inspiration […]
CycleStreets, you may not be aware, was based on a Cambridge-only cycle journey planner that we created as members of Cambridge Cycling Campaign. The Cambridge Cycling Campaign journey planner went live in the early hours of 27 June 2006, some five years ago today. Back then it based its routes on a network which […]
CycleStreets, providing cycle routing for the UK, is now available on Android – thanks to our new app. Download it from the Android Market now – for 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. Brought to you by CycleStreets, the […]
The Bike Hub levy -funded smartphone app, which uses CycleStreets routing, will be highlighted in Sense and the City, an exhibition about being "connected & on the move". A new exhibition at London Transport Museum will explore how people in the past imagined the London of the future and how new technology will influence city […]