We’re delighted that CycleStreets has won the ‘best innovation’ category in the Cycle Planning Awards 2016, organised by Landor Links. The award, for ‘CycleStreets and Cyclescape’, recognises our work on developing the CycleStreets suite of tools, including Cyclescape. As the winners announcement states, “CycleStreets provide data to a wide variety of journey planning websites and apps, encouraging the […]
“CycleStreets: our story” – Green Enterprise talk, Monday 28th, Cambridge
We’re giving a talk to Green Enterprise, in Cambridge, today (Monday 28th January 2013). Themes covered in the talk will include: Who we are What we provide A bit about how the journey planner works OpenStreetMap and data collection Volunteer data collection Open-sourcing Funding Competition Big projects Challenges for the future Do come! Full details […]
Talk in Cambridge: “Using Open Data and Crowdsourcing to develop CycleStreets”
If you’re in Cambridge on Thursday, come and hear about CycleStreets behind the scenes, organised by BCS East Anglia! Location: Red Gate Software, 12 Cambridge Business Park, CB4 0WZ [Cycle there – directions] Date and time: 6:30pm – 8pm, Thursday, 26th April, 2012 The event is free, and there will an opportunity for networking before the talk, from 6.15pm. Full […]
2 million cycle journeys planned with CycleStreets
Last night CycleStreets broke through the 2 million journeys planned threshold. Thanks to all our users, who we hope we provide a useful service to, and to everyone who has helped in any way or donated to the project! Thanks especially to everyone who has added data to OpenStreetMap. It’s a great data source, and […]
New promotional flyers available
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 […]
New ‘cycle to us’ links – techy work in progress
A techy post reporting on some work in progress, and seeking suggestions! … A while back we introduced various new URL formats like: http://www.cyclestreets.net/journey/to/SW1A+2AA/ which would allow someone at that postcode to put a link 'cycle here' on their website. This is designed so that the user needing to plan a journey would just follow […]
CycleStreets – review of the year
Today is our second birthday – CycleStreets was launched on 20th March 2009. The last year has seen a huge amount of development work, leading to new features, speed improvements, and more. However, the next six months will be even busier as the project really ramps up! In the first year, CycleStreets planned 67,000 routes. […]
CycleStreets plans its half-millionth route
Today saw the 500,000th route planned on the system! Route 500,000 was planned by a user of the Bike Hub iPhone app, a cycle satnav/planner app with a handy bike shop finder. Their route was a half-hour journey from the King's Cross area to South Kensington, a distance of 4¼ miles. CycleStreets exists to help […]
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, […]
‘Get Pedalling’ with CycleStreets – says Cycle Cambridge
Cycle Cambridge, the cycling section of Cambridgeshire County Council has issued a great new edition of its 'Get Pedalling' publication (Autumn/Winter 2010/11 issue). It features CycleStreets and our iPhone app, alongside updates on cycling schemes in Cambridgeshire.