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By viv, 22 September, 2011 8:00 am

Did you know that today is World Carfree day and an opportunity to leave the car at home and walk, take a bus, train or cycle? All this can help to highlight congestion on our roads, pollution from exhaust fumes and the threat of dangerous climate change caused by cars.

Some of the winners of our‘How can we improve transport in Britain?’ GeoVation Challenge have some great ideas and tools for alternative ways to travel.

If you’re cycling,  Cyclestreets have a great journey planner.  Their website and mobile apps use OS Street View® map data from the OS OpenData™ datasets as well as  OpenStreetMap options for route planning.

Public interest in the London Cycle Map Campaign is growing with nearly 1500 signatures but they need 100,000 signatures in order for a petition to be debated in the House of Commons. So if you think Simon Parker’s London ‘Tube Map’ for cyclist is  a great idea  – sign the petition now!

Mission:Explore are working closely with Sustrans and Arla to create challenges and activities called ‘missions’ along parts of the cycle network to encourage families and new users to get out and cycle on the National Cycle Network

If you have problems travelling on public transport, why not report it on FixMyTransport a site for public transport users to report problems and get them fixed!

AccessAdvisr, another of our winners are busy building their proof of concept for a new website and smartphone app that intends to improve the quality and richness of information about accessible transport networks.

And if you really need to take the car, have you heard about liftshare week (3^rd – 7^th October 2011)?  liftshare Week is the UK-wide event which aims to encourage more people to discover the benefits of car-sharing.

What maps or apps do you use to help you to leave the car at home and plan your cycle, walk or journey by public transport?

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By viv, 10 August, 2011 8:00 am

CycleStreets, one of our  ‘How can we improve transport in Britain? GeoVation Challenge winners, were awarded £27 000 to help them built their cycling advocacy toolkit for groups across the country to campaign for better cycling facilities.

A lot of their users will already know that they use  OpenStreetMap data as the basis of their street/path network for route planning, but did you know that they are using several of the OS OpenData™ datasets in their Journey Planner?

OS OpenData offers a wide range of datasets from Ordnance Survey. CycleStreets are using the postcode database, Code-Point Open®, Boundary-Line™ and OS Street View® to improve the facilities on Cyclestreets.

Find out more about how they are using it on their blog.