This is a guest post from PleaseCycle, who include a journey planner run by CycleStreets in their product. PleaseCycle is an online system allowing councils or employers to encourage and reward resident or employee cycling through an innovative leaderboard system and redemption of ‘points’ earned, whilst being able to report on the carbon saved as […]
Go Dutch map for London Cycling Campaign
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 […]
Journey planner for Samsung Bike Week
We’ve created a customised cycle journey planner for the Samsung Bike Week website. We hope you’re enjoying Bike Week, and using it as an opportunity to spread the joys of cycling! Each event has a new ‘Plan your route to the event’ link, which pre-fills the destination box, making it even easier to promote events […]
Cycle journey planning in Scotland
Over the last year we’ve been pleased to work with Cycling Scotland on a range of projects, now all completed and outlined below. These projects, which have been achieved thanks to Cycling Scotland’s grant and funding of £22k, will help improve improve CycleStreets, to help people find their way and consider cycling as a practical option […]
Journey planner for London Cycling Campaign’s new website
We've created a new customised journey planner for London Cycling Campaign. LCC are the leading cycling advocacy group in London. Their work over many years has really helped keep up the pressure to improve cycling conditions in London – so you should certainly join LCC! (LCC is in fact the first NGO that Martin joined.) Most […]
London Cycle Hire website updated
We've added a few new features to our www.LondonCycleHire.org website, a version of the journey planner that includes the Barclays Cycle Hire ('Boris-bike') points. We've added live availability data, thanks to TfL's new data feed – thanks TfL for making this data open! (Disclaimer: as a third-party site, it is not endorsed by TfL). We've […]
Adding a CycleStreets route planner to your site
Organisations can already create a simple 'cycle to us' link. However, some larger organisations may like to have a planner embedded in their site directly. So we've published a new page detailing how Local Authorities and cycling promotion bodies can add a CycleStreets route planner to their site. CycleStreets can be added: As a subdomain […]
Local councils encouraged to sign up to CycleStreets
Our new brochure promoting CycleStreets for Local councils around the UK is now available, and hundreds of copies will be posted out this weekend! Naturally, we're keen to see OSM-based CycleStreets used as widely as possible, so that as many people as possible can be helped to start cycling or find better routes. So we've printed […]
Journey planner for West Sussex County Council
We're pleased to announce the launch a customised cycle journey planner for West Sussex County Council! http://cyclejourneyplanner.westsussex.gov.uk/ We hope that this will be the first of many Local Authority sites based on CycleStreets (and thus OpenStreetMap), although quite a number already have links to our main site. Read more about the services we can offer […]
CycleStreets: Our Story – presentation to Net2Camb event
We really enjoyed the January Net2Camb Meetup event, where one of our lead developers, Martin, gave a talk 'Our Story'. Thanks to Claire for organising the event and everyone who came! It was particularly enjoyable as it was a rare opportunity to talk about the business and competition aspects of CycleStreets, about the challenges we face, […]