Some of this description is taken from the CycleStreets website: https://www.cyclestreets.net/
What is CycleStreets?
CycleStreets is a UK-wide cycle journey planner system, which lets you plan routes from A to B by bike. It is designed by cyclists, for cyclists, and caters for the needs of both confident and less confident cyclists. It allows you to plan a route using various criteria, for example, fastest route, shortest route, quietest route or the default “balanced”
Who created and runs CycleStreets?
The system has been created by Simon Nuttall, (Routemaster – focussing on routing quality and performance) and Martin Lucas-Smith, (Webmaster – focussing on usability and code structure). Both of us are regular bicycle users, based in Cambridge, and we’ve been involved with Cambridge Cycling Campaign for many years.
Where does the map data come from?
The map data is from OpenStreetMap which is an ongoing project to map the world. We are immensely grateful to all the volunteers who have created the base data. Please consider donating to OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMap data, (and therefore the routes that CycleStreets plans) are licensed under the Open Data Commons Open Database License, which is explained at www.openstreetmap.org/copyright.
Use in Salisbury
As someone who uses their bike for most journeys within the city, I have found myself relying more and more on CycleStreets for more and more of my unfamiliar journeys. Is is perfect? Absolutely not (but let’s be honest, no mapping software is). The data for Salisbury was vastly out of date so the team at Active Travel Salisbury have been working hard to improve the data in Open Street Map to help CycleStreets to give better directions.
How can YOU help?
If you choose to use CycleStreets and you notice any bad directions, unknown cycle paths, confusing routing or anything else you can do one of two things:
- Go to https://www.openstreetmap.org, set up an account and then get editing the map to contribute to maintaining the information about cycling in Salisbury.
- If you can’t do this, then head to the Contact Us page and let us know as precisely as you can what needs doing. Please note that we may not always reply (we are all volunteers), but we will read the emails.
