Lessons from the Developer Day

On Saturday we held an intensive but successful event that focussed on the development challenges for CycleStreets. It was attended by computer scientists, software engineering professionals and webmasters who have experience in managing online services. This summarises some of the stuff we talked about. Processing OpenStreetMap (OSM) data to build a Graph for Cycle Routing We […]

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Developer Day (6th March): final details

Here are final details for our Developer Day this Saturday. We’ve had to amend the location as there are more people than we expected – which is great news! If you plan to come, please let us know if you’ve not already been in touch. Time and place Date: Saturday 6th March 2010 Time: 10.30am […]

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Funding grant from Cambridge Sustainable City

We are delighted to announce that CycleStreets has been awarded a Cambridge Sustainable City grant, of £3,200, to cover a range of improvements. Cambridge Sustainable City is an initiative of Cambridge City Council, who are one of a number of Local Authorities who are now linking to CycleStreets from their website transport pages. (We hope […]

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Developer Day: Saturday 6th March

As previously posted, we’re going to have a Developer Day. The date has been set as 6th March, as that seemed to be the date that most people can do, and it gives us a little bit more time for preparation. We’re not sure we’ve got everyone’s e-mail who plans to come, so please do […]

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Photomap shares video

Short video clips can now be added to the photomap. Here’s an example of Simon getting his feet wet on the flooded section of the public bridleway next to the Cambridgeshire busway. Videos can be up to 50 MB in size, and may include sound. Formats currently supported are MOV, AVI, WMV and FLV. They […]

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Developer Day – sign up now!

We’ve now firmed up plans for our Developer Day, to be held in the coming month. We’ve had various kind expressions of interest from people wanting to get involved at a more technical level, either in terms of programming or the OpenStreetMap-related aspects, and we thought this would be a good way of helping that process […]

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CycleStreets Developer Day coming soon

We’re planning to hold a Developer Day soon. We’ve had various kind expressions of interest from people wanting to get involved at a more technical level, either in terms of programming or the OpenStreetMap-related aspects, and we thought this would be a good way of helping that process along. It will be held in Cambridge […]

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View from the Street – in itinerary listings

We’ve now added a Street View facility to the itinerary listing pages. We think this will really help people to visualise the routes planned in many urban areas. Many thanks to George Coulouris, who wrote the main code to integrate this facility into CycleStreets. To use it, just go to an itinerary listing, e.g. Itinerary […]

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100,000 cycle journeys planned on CycleStreets

We’re pleased to announce that the CycleStreets Cycle Journey Planner today reached a milestone of 100,000 journeys planned. (Well, actually it was 99,999 – we added the next one to reserve the number!) How long till 1 million? … :)

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Overview of CycleStreets: your questions answered

We’ve created some long-needed documentation: Overview of CycleStreets: your questions answered, covering a number of areas: Features: Cycle journey planner Features: Photomap Many more features Homepages for 1,500+ towns/cities/districts around the UK Branded versions for Local Authorities and others Community-based, not-for-profit The map data: where it comes from and how you can contribute How we use […]

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