Dogfooding, for those who haven't come across the term, is programmers' jargon for 'trying out your own product', i.e. eating your own dogfood! While cycling around in London recently I made use of two great cut-throughs, thanks to our iPhone app and the great mapping done by OpenStreetMap folk. These are the kind of cut-throughs for […]
CycleParking4London update
London Cycling Campaign's www.cycleparking4london.org.uk website, which we helped create, is continuing to see requests for new cycle parking locations pouring in. The site enables members of the public to submit suggestions of places needing cycle parking, which will then be used by local campaigners. As well as going to the main site itself, you can use the […]
Digital Heroes vote – vote closing soon
Please vote for us, to help us get £5k of much-needed funding. To vote, just go to: http://www.talk-talk.mirror.co.uk/region-e-anglia.htm and click on the voting button next to Simon, one of our main developers. Every penny would be used to improve the website to make it easier to use and produce better quality routes. Our users keep […]
Short link domain: cycle.st
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: cycling to the moon 10 times
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 […]
iPhone app open sourced – and can you help us develop it?
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!), […]
New cycle parking website for London launched
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 […]
Future Friendly Awards: thanks for your vote
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 […]
OpenStreetMap – the data behind the apps
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. […]
Mobile apps in the works: Android and others
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 […]