CycleStreets is supported by a whole range of people, whether in terms of mapping, coding, feedback handling, photo curation, awareness-raising, donations, grants (as reported via this blog), and more. One area is the great support that our hosting company, Mythic Beasts, provides. Over many years, they’ve given us various bits of freebie hosting, and it’s also been great […]
CycleHack Cambridge 2016
CycleHack is a 48-hour event aiming to make cities cycle-friendly through reducing the barriers to cycling and prototyping new ideas to improve the cycling experience and encourage more and safer cycling. More than 40 other cities around the world have signed up to host CycleHack events in their communities over the weekend of 24 to […]
Urban Cycle Parking website goes live across London
A new website, Urban Cycle Parking, [urbancycleparking.org.uk], built by CycleStreets, has been launched by London Cycling Campaign and Transport for London, aiming to outline where existing bike parking facilities are available in and around the capital and invites people to highlight existing facilities as well as outlining where more is needed. The site builds on the crowdsourcing components of […]
Students: Get paid to write code for CycleStreets/OpenStreetMap this summer with GSOC 2016
Each year, Google runs a summer programme called Google Summer of Code (GSOC), where students get involved in coding for open source projects like ours and are paid for their time. We (CycleStreets) have created a project ideas list, which would be undertaken under the umbrella of the OpenStreetMap organisation, and are willing to mentor a student […]
TransportHack @ Smarter Travel LIVE!
Matt Whittle writes: This weekend we attended the Smarter Travel Live hack weekend. The aim of the hack event was to produce an output to support one of five challenges set by various organisations. We chose to tackle the Carplus challenge which was to try and find a way to reduce the use of cars as the primary […]
Cycle North Staffs app created by CycleStreets
We’ve created a new cycling app for Stoke-on-Trent City Council. The Cycle North Staffs app, developed by CycleStreets, is here to help you to get the most out of your cycling. The app is packed with routes across Stoke-on-Trent and Newcastle-under-Lyme to get you to school, to work, or for leisure. It’s suitable for all […]
Cycle commuting analysis of Bristol
We love it when our API comes in useful for academic purposes. This is a guest post by Richard Thomas. Bristol: Typical cycle commute time For my MSc dissertation, I investigated determinants of the proportion of people who choose to cycle for their daily commute. Specifically, I wanted to see whether an analysis of realistic […]
New features added to Cyclescape
Lots of new features have been added to Cyclescape, our toolkit for cycling advocacy groups. Our developer, Nikolai, has been busy, working on piles of improvements and bugfixes. As featured on the Cyclescape blog, the latest updates include: Street View message replies: While it’s of course possible to navigate off-site, get a Street View link, […]
Patrick reports back
Back in July we introduced our summer intern, Patrick. Here, he reports back on his achievements over the three-month period. This summer I worked for Cyclestreets as a paid intern for three months. During this time, I became acquainted with the large codebase the site runs on, and made several structural changes to the organisation of the code. […]
Cambridge recognised in upcoming cycle planning awards
The efforts of several local organisations and companies to get more people cycling in the Cambridge, the HQ of CycleStreets, has been recognised in the inaugural Cycle Planning Awards. The awards ceremony is being held in Walthamstow, London on 14th September. CycleStreets is a finalist in the ‘Best Innovation’ category for its free-to-use journey planning website. CycleStreets runs […]