Make the walking sections be dashed line rather than solid whenever the line is drawn (i.e. main route page and itinerary).

NB The quietest route strategy currently tends to give rather more walking than it should. This is an area being addressed in the API side, but is complex and so is taking time to address.

During uploading photos on an htc Wildfire I'm not getting the red X that marks the photo's location, neither from the geo-tagging, nor when I tap to set location.

For example the location link http://maps.google.com/maps?q=51.5247619688,-0.134837988376 as on http://lanyrd.com/2011/geomob-september/ should give the cyclestreets app as an option to set the destination.

https://skitch.com/smsm1/gmiad/sc20111127-152932

Calculations of calorie usage and CO2 equivalent are now available in the API output.

http://www.cyclestreets.net/blog/2011/06/30/calories-burned-and-co2-saved/

http://www.cyclestreets.net/api/#jpReturnRoute

Presumably this would be a fairly simple thing to add as text somewhere. So it would be good to add these in, and provide an additional hook for promoting the app.

Only 1.5+ specific API we currently use is the EXIF extraction stuff. We should be able to do a bit of runtime checking and dynamic loading see if it's available or not.

To login or create new account.

Right now you can enter your details in the settings screen, but it's not really very nice. Really need a proper screen of its own to solicit and validate details.

If not already provided.

Ability to name saved routes, so i could call something 'home to xxx'

This issue is often requested on iPhone: see cyclestreets/ios#40 and on main site.

Right now each tab runs its own activity. This works ok, but also has a number of drawbacks. Reworking to use the new Fragments API would be nicer all around.

Better text directions, e.g.: "Cycle for 20 metres then turn left", and "Turn left after ..."

This is a problem at the API end, not the app end but it may have knock-on consequences for app design to make better use of such data.

http://m.cyclestreets.net/journey/
uses a new crosshair mode which makes it easier to set the map location on a mobile device.

Key points are:

Each click sets a waypoint. At present m.cyclestreets.net has only two, but each point set should just create another marker.

After the second click there needs to be a choice of two buttons: Set another marker or Click to route. Not sure what the best UI mode is.

Retain the current back button, which just does an undo by one step.

Add option to main route screen menu.
Also as pop-up on saved route?

Several people have requested the ability to add a GPX file. Although there are other apps for this, it would be a nice addition for the sake of completeness.

There is no spaces in the user name field and I can't login. Using android firefox.

This is when following the upload form to upload a photo to the photomap.

Via email: On Thu, February 16, 2012 10:17 pm, Shaun McDonald

We now have waypoints in the API, so would be good to add this to the app.

Suggest that:

Two taps (as now):
1 - start point, green
2 - finish point, red

then if a third tap is added:
1 - start point, green
2 - waypoint, orange
3 - finish point, red

then if a fourth tap is added

1 - start point, green
2 - waypoint, orange
3 - waypoint, orange
4 - finish point, red

etc.

Using the undo button moves back in this sequence.

Presumably something similar for the text interface.

To prevent accidentally coming out of the app and losing your navigation position whilst moving, it would be good if there was something similar to the Google Navigation app whereby the app is shown in the lock screen, with the navigation updating as you move along.

If by accident you've pressed 'Add waypoint' there does not seem to be a way to remove it.

The route planner doesn't seem to ignore blank waypoint entries.

Also, when the error box says 'No location found' it does not indicate which location / waypoint it could not find.

If available in Android.

Will need to be added into the XML API call, as the main site takes account of bearings when doing Photos-en-route.

Modal dialog saying "clear current route?"

Currently the signin on the app only applies to the Photomap. Instead it should also appear as a standalone screen under 'More', so that when signed in, the journeys get associated with that username when going to the main site.

This would need some minor additions to the API to enable the username/password to be supplied, which infers a POST operation to the HTTPS side.

When planning a route, the start/finish point saved in 'My saved routes' should use the typed text rather than the exact response of the namefinder.

Perhaps this could be achieved using a 'flip for info' UI

It would be useful to be able to send occasional messages to users, e.g. that CycleStreets needs votes for a funding award, etc.

Needs API provisioning but that should not be hard.

Add option to main route screen menu.
Also as pop-up on saved route?

'Other' could have a 'Latest news' section, basically just a view of the blog as RSS.

Basically just shove in an RSS reader, with this as the URL:
http://www.cyclestreets.net/blog/feed/

Right now, the end points hang around but the tap state is wrong.

So the user can view all photos they have added.

Same as http://www.cyclestreets.net/photos/mine/ basically.

Needs API provisioning also, but this will not be hard.

Current red colour is similar to red on map tiles. Suggest purple (as used by Google on iPhone) or whatever is standard on Android (if indeed there is such a standard :))

The "Add waypoint" button does not automatically move the cursor focus to the text box, in the "Plan a route" dialog.

This is the master ticket for the addition of a full sat-nav mode rather than a journey planner app.

Already being requested by users, quite naturally.

Implementation steps:

• Set user geolocation to be at a fixed point, and move the map position (would be useful mode anyway)
• Add satnav mode switching (so old mode is still available)
• Add maths to rotate tiles in opposite angle to device angle (or use Vector display - library vendor contacted about this)
• Add fogging to prevent infinite distance
• Add way to detect which part of the route user is on (maths)
• Issue turn alert
• Add replan mode if user goes far off route

Key issues are:

• Retain itinerary mode?
• Show 'Turn left' rather than individual route sections
• Is the iPhone GPS fast enough to recognise the user's location?
• How to deal with "Take the fourth sideroad on the left"

CycleStreets has a places API which will be expanded to include things like restaurants, cycle parking, cafés, cinemas, tourist destinations, and really any kind of place that will be useful to cyclists. It will be done as a set of categories, with click-through to a category revealing the nearest locations of things in that category.

The app should implement this directory, with clicking on an entry pre-filling the destination point.

When you take a photo in portrait, and upload it using the android app, it will not be rotated correctly, and I have to log in to the web site and rotate it there.

Samsung Galaxy S2.

After uploading http://www.cyclestreets.net/location/37453/ I tried to share via twitter. The caption appeared in the twitter app as:

null - Handing out these #ReachRide leaflets feels like being on #theapprentice

so I did not tweet that.

Having gotten home I've tried again, uploading http://www.cyclestreets.net/location/37456/ and that has worked fine producing this tweet: https://twitter.com/#!/simon_nuttall/status/198471580949549056

The only difference between the two situations is that when I was outside I was on mobile, whereas at home I'm on wifi.

To draw attention to inself.

The default upload setting is "Full size on Wifi".

This often results in lo-res photos appearing at e.g:
http://www.cyclestreets.net/location/35976/

I'd like to suggest changing the default to "Full Size" on whatever connection type, which should result in better quality images coming through.

If the user discovers this is too slow they can always change it back.

I am asking for this because I often clear out my old data when installing a new version of the Android app.

Recent searches should be saved by default into a third tab, with the standard apple swipe-to-delete UI enabled to allow their deletion.

"Recent" should simply dumps in the results and underlying lat/long, with most recent at the top. If the user then starts typing at the top, it should revert to either Local or National, whichever was last used of the two.

Have contacted http://www.mapdroyd.com/ to ask about their vector rendering component.

http://code.google.com/p/mapsforge/ would be worth a look at also.

I mostly take geo-located photos with the Android device - but the upload process asks me to set the location without displaying the location its already got for the photo.

I can press the upload button without setting the location - and CycleStreets picks up the geo-location.

But it would be more re-assuring if the app showed the location before I did the upload - and it would give me the opportunity to tweak it. I guess this should also use the cross-hair style for setting the postiion.

An API call will be available shortly giving a list of the countries that the CycleStreets API will route in.

It would be good to list these in the About/Settings area.

Adding these as clickable points, with live data updates, would be sensible. Lots of apps in the appstore for this, but adding it to our own avoids having to use a different app for this.

Our API already has the data.

http://www.cyclestreets.net/api/#places

with type=londoncyclehire

This is fed from the same data:
http://www.cyclestreets.net/journey/places/londoncyclehire/

The Photomap markers in the v.1.5 iPhone app are nice. We need to have similar 'backgrounded' markers but with the per-type (e.g. cycleparking/obstructions/etc.) added.

Map tile caching along line of plan: should start pre-caching (downloading) when no other downloading.

Need to check with tile provider acceptable use policy before doing this.

Should be a setting to enable/disable this, to save bandwidth.

On the HTML site journeys planned while signed-in are associated with the user and so can automatically appear in listings such as /journeys/mine/

The HTML site uses PHP's session cookie to co-ordinate this. I don't know how it works on the Android App, but you must already do it for photo-uploading so probably not that hard?

Basically would be a box within 'My Saved Journeys' that expects a number and strategy type (balanced being default, and the other three shown); when entered, the journey is then retrieved via the API:

http://www.cyclestreets.net/api/#switchRoutes

When obtained, it is saved and then just becomes like any other route saved, i.e. retrievable/deletable.

Today I had a problem in that when I tried to upload a photo it initially wouldn't get to the select/take photo screen claiming that there was no network connection. At the first few seconds that may have been true, however the icons on the photo map were then loading. I had to force quit the cyclestreets app, and try a few more times before it would let me select a photo to upload.

Samsung Galaxy S2.

The ability to rotate the map. Probably a precursor to sat nav mode.

I'm finding that when I upload a photo, it'll often be uploaded twice, rather than just once. I think it may be more likely to happen when I'm using mobile data, and the phone thinks there is an error on the upload, so tries again.