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.
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New Point to point cycle route planner
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Posted 10 years ago #
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Ooh, it's got a circular route option! And it's the OS maps! Goodbye, potential for a productive evening!
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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.
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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...
"Total length: 448mi (50hr 8m). Includes 18mi on major roads; 1000m pushing; 6.5mi unsurfaced (estimate)."Interesting, but not the route I would choose.
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I know Richard who runs cycle.travel will be very happy to hear your comments on the site.
Interestingly the maps are mostly OpenStreetMap with some of the open OS data.
He's written a blog post on how some of the routing works at Building cycle.travel’s bike directions with OSRM
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.
Because the underlying data is OpenStreetMap based, I would be very interested to see some of the routes that it's getting wrong.
For the postcode issue, I think Richard may be using OSM Nominatim, have a try putting your postcode into http://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/ - or message me.
Posted 10 years ago # -
: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.
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I had the same issue with the postcode putting me in London.
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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.
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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.
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It works the same for me. Although it can't find a circular route (I guess Kincardine is just a little too far away.)
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Interestly if I put EH1 XXX in instead of my EH11 XXX postcode it works fine...
Though my location is an option if you click underneath my real postcode
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"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. "
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 technically 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.
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Steveo. how odd. i put in EH11 with no probs...
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Very strange!
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SRD said "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."
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.
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.
Tracks are dragable ala Google Maps.
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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.
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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.
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.
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Cool, that's exactly what I've fixed so should be sorted when the data next gets updated.
Posted 10 years ago # -
Spotted this thread - glad people like it!
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.
Richard (cycle.travel)
Posted 10 years ago # -
Any chance you could get it to not zoom to South England when the page first opens?
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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!
Worth noting that if you log into the site, you can tell it your postcode and it'll automatically centre there from then on.
Posted 10 years ago # -
it's now no longer sending you across the airport
I can confirm that it is indeed fixed - thanks for that.
Posted 10 years ago # -
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?
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OK, scratch that, I have now found the icon.
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