Congrats, Richard. The site looks awesome. Now I just wish I could make time for a bike tour in England next year........
The maps are an amazing example of what OpenStreetMap enables: an escape from the one-size-fits-all world, the true future of online maps. On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 8:15 AM, Richard Fairhurst <rich...@systemed.net>wrote: > Hi all, > > 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 . > > cheers > Richard > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-GB mailing list > Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb >
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