CTC, the national cycling charity, has launched a new cycling infrastructure map to help communicate what makes good conditions for cycling and where improvements need to be made. CTC have linked up with CycleStreets to ensure these locations are also saved to the CycleStreets Photomap. Chris Peck, CTC, explains this new initiative. What is the […]
CycleStreets has worked with Transition Black Isle to provide an embedded cycle journey planner for their website. Peter Elbourne, project officer for the Million Miles project explains. Transition Black Isle is a community organisation and registered charity that aims to take local action on issues relating to peak oil and climate change. The group decided to […]
Cycle routes very often use un-named paths. These create a headache for anyone who tries to give directions to a cyclist: “take the cycleway alonsidge this road, at a junction with two other paths turn right under the bridge, then go down a snicket on the left …” It’s a key issue for us trying […]
The latest update to CycleStreets for Windows Phone is now available. We’ve done some significant work on improving the user interface for plotting routes in the directions screen as well as adding a quicker tap destination and find directions from my current location option on the home screen. We’d really appreciate your feedback on this change […]
State Of The Map is the annual conference of OpenStreetMap (OSM), whose fantastic data we make use of to provide cycle routing. We gave two presentations at State Of The Map 2013 which this year was held in Birmingham. It’s the annual gathering of people who collect street data as well as those who, like us, […]
The first update for CycleStreets on Windows Phone is out now! As well as fixing the usual bugs, version 1.1 adds some great new features. The new release brings along leisure routing, which is a great feature that can find a circular route around your current location that is of a distance or time of your […]
We’re pleased to announce a significant new version of the CycleStreets Android App (version 2.0). It brings a much requested feature – LiveRide sat-nav voice navigation. LiveRide provides Turn-by-turn voice instructions as you ride Automatic rerouting if you go off course Can run in the background with screen off Option to keep screen on and […]
Beds for Cyclists, the UK’s cycle friendly accommodation community, has teamed up with us to offer cyclists on the move cycle-friendly accommodation information on their mobiles. Cyclists can now find cycle-friendly hosts on the CycleStreets app and Bike Hub cycle journey planner apps. Beds for Cyclists is the UK’s cycle friendly accommodation community created by cyclists […]
The graphic shows work in progress to improve the quality of CycleStreets routes by taking into account the cost of making a turn. This is part of routing enhancement work being undertaken by Codex Cambridge with us as part of the Technology Strategy Board Innovation Vouchers scheme. The upper frame shows three routes for a […]
CycleStreets cycle routing app is now available in the Windows Phone Store in the UK and costs only 99p. Less than a puncture repair kit and just as useful! Get the CycleStreets for Windows Phone app! For Windows Phone we redesigned the app to take advantage of Windows Phone’s unique interface design resulting in a […]