http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: New Point to point cycle route planner en Sat, 18 Apr 2026 16:25:44 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12838#post-154379 Thu, 22 May 2014 20:11:26 +0000 Kenny 154379@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>OK so I can imagine myself wanting to use this when coming up with random rides to / from places, especially the circular route thing because I hate coming back the same way I go somewhere. Is it possible to export the route so that it can be loaded into e.g. a Garmin device as a route?</p> <p>[ later ]</p> <p>OK, scratch that, I have now found the icon. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12838#post-154377 Thu, 22 May 2014 20:03:42 +0000 Kenny 154377@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em> it's now no longer sending you across the airport</em></p> <p>I can confirm that it is indeed fixed - thanks for that. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12838#post-154374 Thu, 22 May 2014 19:26:56 +0000 RichardFairhurst 154374@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Yep - will be doing that once the coverage is widened a bit. Right now there isn't really a map of anywhere outside the UK, so starting it zoomed out gives you an ugly empty map of nowhere. But I'm working on expanding coverage!</p> <p>Worth noting that if you log into the site, you can tell it your postcode and it'll automatically centre there from then on. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12838#post-154360 Thu, 22 May 2014 17:20:21 +0000 SRD 154360@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Any chance you could get it to not zoom to South England when the page first opens? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12838#post-154359 Thu, 22 May 2014 17:16:24 +0000 RichardFairhurst 154359@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Spotted this thread - glad people like it!</p> <p>I triggered an update overnight and it's now no longer sending you across the airport (probably a good thing). I've also reworked the postcode lookup so it doesn't use OSM for that, but Ordnance Survey's postcode list, and that should now be working better. Let me know of any more suggestions/comments.</p> <p>Richard (cycle.travel) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12838#post-154247 Wed, 21 May 2014 22:59:42 +0000 chrisfl 154247@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Cool, that's exactly what I've fixed so should be sorted when the data next gets updated. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12838#post-154243 Wed, 21 May 2014 22:12:30 +0000 Kenny 154243@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>I think I've found @Kenny's problem. Most of the service roads inside the airport were not marked as private in OpenStreetMap. I've fixed this up, not sure how quickly cycle.travel gets updates but when it does routing through the airport should stop.<br /> </em></p> <p>Cool. It's broken right now but I know the OSM cycle maps do take longer to get updated. You can see the problem if you do a circular route from Craigmount to Winchburgh, that takes you through the private airport road. I'll try it again in a couple of days. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12838#post-154199 Wed, 21 May 2014 13:30:42 +0000 chrisfl 154199@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I think I've found @Kenny's problem. Most of the service roads inside the airport were not marked as private in OpenStreetMap. I've fixed this up, not sure how quickly cycle.travel gets updates but when it does routing through the airport should stop. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12838#post-154197 Wed, 21 May 2014 12:50:08 +0000 DaveC 154197@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>SRD said "<em>for me it defaults to london when i just open the map. but if i put in my home to work postcodes, it works just fine.</em>"</p> <p>Same here. Are you using IE or Chrome or other? Though I inderstand it should not matter. Yes when you open the link its centered on London but I have been using it by dragging the map and clicking on the start and finish locations.</p> <p>The guy who made it says circular routes are slightly more difficult but it basically use an algorithm to route you back via a non same route.</p> <p>Tracks are dragable ala Google Maps. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12838#post-154190 Wed, 21 May 2014 12:14:49 +0000 steveo 154190@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Very strange! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12838#post-154183 Wed, 21 May 2014 11:41:13 +0000 SRD 154183@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Steveo. how odd. i put in EH11 with no probs... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12838#post-154182 Wed, 21 May 2014 11:34:06 +0000 Focus 154182@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"<em>for me it defaults to london when i just open the map. but if i put in my home to work postcodes, it works just fine. </em>"</p> <p>Same for me. Only played with it briefly but it plotted a circular course to Peebles without difficulty. Once back in Edinburgh, it returned me via the same route as outbound (so not <em>technically</em> circular) but it was using a sensible in-town route and so was logical. Besides, it's easy enough to tweak such a small part of the route if necessary. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12838#post-154181 Wed, 21 May 2014 11:30:44 +0000 steveo 154181@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Interestly if I put EH1 XXX in instead of my EH11 XXX postcode it works fine...</p> <p>Though my location is an option if you click underneath my real postcode </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12838#post-154179 Wed, 21 May 2014 11:27:51 +0000 acsimpson 154179@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>It works the same for me. Although it can't find a circular route (I guess Kincardine is just a little too far away.) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12838#post-154176 Wed, 21 May 2014 11:17:01 +0000 SRD 154176@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>for me it defaults to london when i just open the map. but if i put in my home to work postcodes, it works just fine. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12838#post-154169 Wed, 21 May 2014 11:01:44 +0000 steveo 154169@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Its pretty good tbh. Postcodes are smoked by the looks of things but putting my street to Peebles gave a decent run avoiding the silly roads as much as is possible. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12838#post-154167 Wed, 21 May 2014 10:47:54 +0000 twq 154167@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I had the same issue with the postcode putting me in London. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12838#post-154165 Wed, 21 May 2014 10:32:40 +0000 DaveC 154165@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>:D can you guys give me more info please and I'll feed it back to the designer. He's keen to debug all these problems out. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12838#post-154139 Tue, 20 May 2014 22:50:21 +0000 chrisfl 154139@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I know Richard who runs cycle.travel will be very happy to hear your comments on the site.</p> <p>Interestingly the maps are mostly OpenStreetMap with some of the open OS data. </p> <p>He's written a blog post on how some of the routing works at <a href="http://blog.systemed.net/post/8">Building cycle.travel’s bike directions with OSRM</a></p> <p>One of the big things that I like is the ability to drag the route to your own suiting and also the detailed height information. </p> <p>Because the underlying data is OpenStreetMap based, I would be very interested to see some of the routes that it's getting wrong. </p> <p>For the postcode issue, I think Richard may be using OSM Nominatim, have a try putting your postcode into <a href="http://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/" rel="nofollow">http://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/</a> - or message me. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12838#post-154133 Tue, 20 May 2014 22:01:17 +0000 Greenroofer 154133@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>It thinks my home postcode is in North London (it's actually in Edinburgh). This meant that when I asked it to plot a route to work it came back with...<br /> "<em>Total length: 448mi (50hr 8m). Includes 18mi on major roads; 1000m pushing; 6.5mi unsurfaced (estimate).</em>"</p> <p>Interesting, but not the route I would choose. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12838#post-154131 Tue, 20 May 2014 21:44:23 +0000 Kenny 154131@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Hmm. I asked it to show me a circular route to west lothian and back, and it has shown me a route riding in the River Almond, and through the fenced off airport. Oh well, not to worry. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12838#post-154119 Tue, 20 May 2014 20:31:01 +0000 Kenny 154119@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Ooh, it's got a circular route option! And it's the OS maps! Goodbye, potential for a productive evening! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12838#post-154066 Tue, 20 May 2014 11:55:02 +0000 DaveC 154066@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I found this on YACF. Its actually very good. Not the routes I might take, and it doesn't give you options of busy, meduim and quiet routes but the map is very good.</p> <p><a href="http://cycle.travel/map" rel="nofollow">http://cycle.travel/map</a> </p>