We're speaking at the Net2Camb meetup event, on the subject of 'Building CycleStreets'. It should be a really enjoyable and social evening; do come along! The talk will be suitable for both non-technical and technically-minded people alike. For more details, and to sign up, go to: http://www.meetup.com/Net2Camb/calendar/15827958/ (it's free!) About the event: CycleStreets is the UK-wide cycle journey […]
CycleStreets featured on government open data website
We were delighted to discover today that CycleStreets is featured as the default front page item on the government's relaunched data.gov.uk website! CycleStreets uses four main open datasets: OpenStreetMap, consisting of data collected by people all around the UK to make a brilliant and versatile map dataset (this is not a government dataset though!) OS […]
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 […]
Press release: Nearest thing to a ‘SatNav for Cycling’ launched for iPhone
Cambridge, 22nd September 2010 CycleStreets, the community-based UK cycle routing people, have today released their much-anticipated CycleStreets Journey Planner & Photomap app for iPhone. And it’s free! www.cyclestreets.net/mobile Created by cyclists, for cyclists, the free iPhone app is the nearest thing to a SatNav for cycling, enabling people to plan journeys anywhere in the UK with an innovative and […]
You can still vote for us!
Future Friendly have informed us that the voting deadline has been extended by a week, to 26th September, so if you've not yet voted, please do! This week is the last week to vote to get OpenStreetMap-based CycleStreets a bursary of £10,000 in the Future Friendly Awards! We're one 5 groups in the national finals. Such […]
Future Friendly Awards – please vote for us!
We're pleased to announce that we're one of the five national environmental projects nominated for the Future Friendly Awards! To win, we need as many votes as possible, though you can of course only vote once, so please spread the word! To vote, click on the logo near the top-right of their website: Vote now! […]
What we’re working on …
This summer has been ridiculous busy for us. We've had a large number of projects, which has felt a little overwhelming at times! Simon is our 'routemaster', and he's been working solidly over recent months on a range of improvements to the journey planning engine: Main focus has been speeding up the routing engine performance. Thanks […]
CamTechNet: Voices in the crowd
CamTechNet have kindly featured us this week in their 'Voices in the crowd' series. We discuss who we are, the history of CycleStreets, involvement of other people in our enterprise, the Startup community in Cambridge, and our hopes for the future. Read their interview with us! CamTechNet as an organisation aims to: Provide a single […]
Cycling Scotland
We're really pleased to see that Cycling Scotland are now linking to Scotland CycleStreets from their front page! It was the Scottish Government’s Sustainable Transport section who funded the initial development of Edinburgh CycleStreets (in the form of a small seed grant arranged by Chris Hill of Changing Pace). We'd like to take this opportunity to […]
Designer needed!
When launching our site as a beta a year ago, we adapted an off-the-shelf design for the design of the site. This has stayed in place ever since. However, based on feedback over the last year, and our own experiences as both users of the site and as user interface designers, we know that it […]