CycleStreets journey planner

CycleStreets Ltd

About this app

Plan routes from A to B anywhere in the UK, with a choice of routing modes to suit a range of cyclists from beginner through regular commuter to enthusiast. The Photomap lets you submit photos of infrastructure problems or good practice around the UK.

PLAN BIKE NAVIGATION FROM A TO B TO C

Select a start and finish point, plus intermediate waypoints, by tapping on the map, by searching for names/places/postcodes, or by using your current location, and tap to obtain the route. Uses the general street network, plus Sustrans and other routes.

CHOICE OF FOUR ROUTING MODES

The app produces routes that will suit most cyclists. It can optionally can find faster or quieter routes for different types of rider. Routes are fetched from the CycleStreets website.

HILLS? NO PROBLEM!

The journey planner knows about hills, and finds routes that take advantage of the descents and avoids the ascents where possible. It balances these against the available road types. The route can be displayed on a map with contours using the OpenCycleMap option.

STAGE-BY-STAGE ITINERARY

As well as the main map view, planned routes are loaded into an itinerary view, so you can follow each part of the journey. The street name, time and length are all shown, as is a detailed map for each individual stage of the journey. Routes are saved so you can also follow them again later.

PHOTOMAP

The Photomap is a cycling advocacy tool used by campaign groups around the country. Use it to browse examples of problems or good practice, and add your own pictures. Need more cycle parking in your favourite spot in town? Sign in with a free account and add a photo of it to the Photomap.

OPENSTREETMAP

Routing makes use of OpenStreetMap data, the brilliant 'geo-wiki' to which you can contribute. Note that, at present, some areas of the country have better coverage than others. Streets and paths of all kinds, including Sustrans routes and Local Authority network, are included. Routing quality is being developed all the time, with new types of cycling and street data being added and interpreted by the route planner.

THANKS

Android App written by our great volunteers: Jez Higgins and Oliver Lockwood, with contributions from Christopher Fraser, Jonathan Gray, Theodore Hong, Farid Kurbanov, kyegupov, Shaun McDonald, Hilary Newmark, Simon Nuttall, John Singleton, Colin Watson.

Part of the development of this App has been funded by Cycling Scotland.

Ratings and reviews

What a pity. Was my favourite app but after the latest Android update it doesn't display the map any more. This, coupled with problems with the previous update, mean that it's becoming very unreliable. Previously, it was really good, identifying a variety of possible routes and usually, though not always, avoiding death trap dual carriageways and the like.

Super app on my Android phone! Very clear, easy to follow navigation. It has been instrumental in giving me confidence to cycle around London. It allows you to pick a route option - the 'balanced' option takes you down dedicated cycle paths and quieter streets which is great for me! (The app isn't as great on Apple phones, I think this is because Apple doesn't support open source apps as well as Android)

It works but the UI is poor and makes it hard to use. Entering places isn't great, saving routes, in fact everything to do with finding a route pales in comparison to Google Maps. Once you have a route then it's pretty good, able to choose fastest, shortest, quietest or balanced routes. But the live route option wasn't great, failed to keep up with my location.

What's new

LiveRide now shows remaining distance and optionally remaining time and/or ETA.
POI URLs (e.g. bike shop websites) now appear as clickable links.
Find a Place now puts a marker on the screen instead of just centering the map.

Various minor bug fixes (incl. downloading map tiles).

Please note that the Offline Vector maps support (using the separate "Cyclestreets UK Map Pack" app bundle) has been broken by Android platform changes. We aim to restore this functionality in a subsequent release.