Friday 31 August 2012

Sustrans on line mapping

www.sustrans.org.uk/map

Sustrans have their own mapping utility. You can draw a route on as with bikely - I found that quite easy to use.

Bikely uses the same base maps as Google maps, which seem to have been getting a lot more accurate lately. Paradoxically Sustrans worked with Google to produce the new facility on Google maps to calculate cycling routes, but the base maps used on their site are OS ones and one of the first things I noticed was that the footbridges over the railway lines near me aren't shown.

The Sustrans maps do show National Cycle Network routes which is useful. Sustrans tell me that they are crowd sourcing info for the maps (not just user added routes). Thus we have yet another apping utility seeking out inormation and competing with all the others.

They also use the term "train station" instead of the usual British English "railway station".

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