[Talk-GB] cycle.travel - new OSM-powered cycling site

[Henry Gomersall]

On 28/11/13 13:15, Richard Fairhurst wrote:
> Thought I might show you what I've been working on for the last year or
> so. :)
>
> http://cycle.travel/ is a new "everyday cycling" website for Britain and
> it won't surprise you to learn it has lots of OSM mapping in there.
>
> Click on 'Map' and you'll find OSM-based route-planning and cycle
> mapping. If you create an account (just log in with Twitter or Facebook
> if you like), you can save your routes, export GPX and PDF, and so on.
>
> The route-planner is based on OSRM, so you get fully draggable routes.
> It tries to avoid hills where possible, and knows about NCN routes.
>
> Both the route-planner and cartography take account of surface tags on
> cycleways, bridleways, tracks and paths. Adding surface tags helps
> cycle.travel know whether a given path is easy to cycle along. There's a
> bit more about this at
> http://cycle.travel/about/maps
>
> Very very early days and I've not really told the world yet. There's a
> few bits of content missing (like the bike shop listings) - it's ramping
> up slowly. But as all the map data has been contributed by you lovely
> people I thought you should be among the first to know! There are
> doubtless lots of bugs and you can report them at
> http://cycle.travel/forum/2 .

This is brilliant!

cheers,

Henry