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OpenStreetMap community mapping guide – for Cycling Scotland
We’re pleased to announce the availability of a new brochure that we’ve done for Cycling Scotland, aimed at motivating people to get mapping for OpenStreetMap. Cycle mapping for cycle routing with...
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Cycle journey planning in Scotland
Over the last year we’ve been pleased to work with Cycling Scotland on a range of projects, now all completed and outlined below. These projects, which have been achieved thanks to Cycling Scotland’s...
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Taking CycleStreets cycle routing another step further: surface quality,...
We’re pleased to announce a series of upgrades to the routing that have been rolled out in the last few months. We’ve extended the range of OpenStreetMap tags that the CycleStreets routing engine uses...
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Estimating elevation inside tunnels
CycleStreets has been using elevation data for several years to help avoid un-necessary hills in planned routes. The elevations we use are interpolated from open data surveys that provide an estimate...
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England Cycling Data project
The England Cycling Data project aims to incorporate open data on cycling infrastructure released by the UK’s Department for Transport into OpenStreetMap. We’ve started taking account of a greater...
View ArticleRouting developer needed for short-term work
We’ve obtained a £5,000 grant from the Technology Strategy Board’s Innovation Vouchers scheme, to work on some interesting routing challenges to help increase the quality of the routing we can offer....
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How far would you ride to avoid a busy right turn?
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...
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What do you call a path alongside a road?
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...
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Turn cost factors – for safer and less wiggly routes
Urban cycle routes can often be very circuitous because they have to work around one-way systems, tunnel under major roads, use paths across parks and short links connecting residential areas. For many...
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Our talk at State of the Map 2019: Is the OSM data model creaking?
Here are the slides from our talk at State of the Map 2019: Is the OSM data model creaking? (PDF, 16MB)
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