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? … :)
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? … :)
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 […]
We’ve submitted an entry for the GeoVation Awards Programme – view our venture. A similar idea to what CycleStreets has been implementing was submitted by someone else, at https://challenge.geovation.org.uk/ideas/57 – please do add a rating for that idea. (Requires login first, but it’s fairly easy.)
It is very possible that you will not be able to find your own postcode using the CycleStreets search. This is due to the data source of postcodes that we are using, and you can contribute too. CycleStreets could use the Royal Mail’s Postcode Address File (PAF), however that is very expensive at over £5,000 […]
Internet Explorer 8 has a useful new feature called ‘Accelerators‘. We’ve created an Accelerator for the CycleStreets photomap search. It basically gives you a one-click search for photos for a given bit of text. To get our Accelerator for IE8, go to our Search page, click on the blue install button. Then confirm, ideally clicking on the […]
For a bit of fun I realised I could plot the start points of planned journeys on the photomap. I’ve done this for the last 2009:
In its desire to avoid busy roads, the Journey Planner sometimes finds complicated cycling routes that have many turns. We have come to talk of this problem as wiggliness. We’ve started work on changing the journey planner so that it finds a better balance between the quietness of a route and the number of turns. […]
We’ve added a new page: Ways to get involved with CycleStreets. Do get in touch if you can offer any help! PS We’ve just reached the 20,000th photo in the Photomap!
Over the past month we’ve changed the algorithm that searches the map to find routes. It is now much more like the A*search algorithm. The results it produces are identical to those produced previously, but it happens faster. A* is fast because it uses a clever way of minimizing the amount of map it needs […]
We’re pleased to announce that CycleStreets was awarded ‘Highly Commended‘ in the ‘Travel Plan Innovation of the Year‘ category at this year’s ACT Travelwise Awards. Sadly we didn’t make the top slot, but congratulations to Transport for London – Smarter Travel Unit, who won the overall category. Read the full list of award winners on the […]