This is a guest post from the creators of the London Travel live app, who have integrated our routing into the app. London Travel live started as a one man’s quest for travelling around London. The concept materialised more out of frustration whilst standing out on a cold winter’s night waiting for the public transport to arrive. […]
iPhone app updates
Got our iPhone app yet? Download it free from the App Store. We’ve rolled various updates recently, thanks to the hard work of our volunteer developer, Neil Edwards. Walking sections on a route are now shown as dotted sections iOS6 transit routing support – a direct link from the Apple Maps app Location lookup screen […]
New CycleStreets iPhone app version released
We’ve issued version 2 of our iPhone app! Get it free from the iTunes App Store. It adds several great new features, including the ability to see a range of route choices and switch between them easily. What’s new? Once a route is planned you can swap its type (fastest/quietest/balanced) directly You can now mark […]
CycleStreets android app now with offline maps
We’re pleased to announce a major new version of the CycleStreets Android App (version 1.4), our fourth update in just over a year. It brings a great new feature … Offline maps! Download the app update and install the map pack now! Up until now, the CycleStreets app has had to download maps as it needed them. As you move […]
CycleStreets Android app is one year old
Jez, the Lead Developer of our Android app, writes: The CycleStreets Android app when live a year ago yesterday. At the end of that first day there were a mighty 4 of what the Android Market calls “active device installs”. As of June 19, there are 10,089. Over the first six months, installs climbed pretty quickly for […]
CycleStreets Mobile web site judged “Best Application Design” by usability expert
We’re delighted that the CycleStreets Mobile web site has been judged one of the “Best Application Designs”, by renowned web usability guru, Jakob Nielsen! The mobile site was one of the winners in the Lightweight Applications category. You can read the report announcing the winners on his site, and a fuller downloadable report is available (for […]
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 […]
Guest post: ViewRanger – Building a worldwide community of outdoor enthusiasts
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 having an Android Hack Day!
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, […]
Android app updated – A-B-C routing (waypoints) added
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 […]