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An absolute labour of love – this phenomenally detailed history of British cycling maps from 1870 to 1970 cyclemaps.blogspot.com /cc @milleanick.bsky.social

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@badlyparkedox.bsky.social S3 bus delayed in Charlbury by 15 minutes once again while the driver inched past this car parked on double yellows, carefully beckoned on by the regulars at the Rose & Crown (OH: “we’ll get you through here mate, I’ve only had two pints of Stella”)

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It’s the most wonderful time of the year

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Nicholsons Waterway Guides, the definitive UK canal/river guides for 50 years, have begun using OpenStreetMap mapping. Previously they were Ordnance Survey

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Amazing new cycling soundtrack! Pascal Gabriel (aka Stubbleman, ex S-Express, Other Two producer etc.) recorded a 1hr46 ride up Mont Ventoux and used the data to trigger modular synth sequences. And it sounds great. It’s on Apple Music/Spotify etc. Background: stubblemanmusic.com/news

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🚨 BREAKING: Oxford could get a congestion charge as soon as this autumn. The £5/day charge would apply to all cars driven past city centre cameras – but (almost) all areas would have a camera-free route from the ring road. Full report and first analysis: oxfordclarion.uk/oxford-conge...

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These are kind of nice, but I’d love a tube map which was geographically accurate in the city centre (for walking distances), Beck-style in the suburbs (for compactness). Apparently there was an unofficial one in the 80s but I’ve never been able to find it. tfl-newsroom.prgloo.com/news/tfl-lau...

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OpenStreetMap once again fulfilling Tony Wilson’s definition of praxis: "doing something, and then only afterwards, finding out why you did it" www.theverge.com/games/672035...

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Researching a new route guide. A few tasters…

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I do like a good bridge, and this is a VERY good bridge

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Cycling in France. Today was day 3 (started in Tours, currently just outside Thiviers). It’s a delight… as it always is.

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tfw your leader does a rivers of blood speech and you get banned from pride in the same week

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One of the biggest problems with cycling infrastructure in Oxford is that it is riddled with what I call "dual provision", where two bad options are offered to people cycling instead of one good one. THREAD, following blog post at wanderingdanny.com/oxford/2025/...

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Os ydych chi eisiau byw yn y Deyrnas Unedig, dylech chi siarad Cymraeg. Dyna synnwyr cyffredin. Felly rydym yn codi gofynion iaith Gymraeg ar draws pob prif lwybr mewnfudo.

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Really good piece on reasons to distrust generative AI (and much more nuanced than my take, which is basically “ChatGPT writes like a twat”)

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Five pages on Reform; two brief sentences on the LibDems. The new ‘Tortoise’ Observer is not looking promising. Suspect this might be the year we finally cancel our long-standing delivery.

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Just wanna point out that LibDem/Green Oxfordshire was the absolute centre of the 15 min city conspiracy and today the LDs have added 15 seats and the Greens have more than doubled so it’s hardly electoral suicide. People like safe streets! @carlosmorenofr.bsky.social @filipwatteeuw.bsky.social

submitted 56 days ago • 20 comments

Proud to live in Oxfordshire right now. LibDems and Greens ascendant. Reform and the anti-LTN loonies comprehensively seen off.

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Google’s AI overviews have such a “confidently incorrect” vibe, don’t they? Hooray for Kagi.

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My gran lived in Runcorn (100 Cotton Lane, Halton Lodge). We spent so many weeks there as kids, walking to Shopping City, taking the T bus, getting disappointed by the sound of the late-night ‘ice-cream van’ that only sold cigarettes. A long time ago but somehow this clip strikes me as 100% Runcorn…

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Too lovely a day not to go cycling!

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We're getting pizza and I'm obsessed with this slightly broken mural that used to be about eating with your hands but now it reads like Saruman's manifesto

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Wait, what? Apparently from next year I have to buy commercial software to enjoy the privilege of paying tax. “does not meet modern digital standards” = some security weenie horseshit made up by astronaut consultants Sigh. Our beloved HM Government, making life ever more shit year by year™

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Lovely piece on cycle touring maps. “Cyclists riding between Lampeter and Aberystwyth would have faced 'a very trying road… [with] a constant succession of dangerous hills'” www.library.wales/news/article...

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Won’t somebody PLEASE think of the wing mirrors?

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I think the story of media, particularly online media, in the last couple decades is basically “market becomes more efficient, society realizes inefficiency was load bearing ”

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The largest optimal Travelling Salesman Problem ever solved: a pub crawl of 81,998 bars in Korea. (Using OSRM, the same core routing engine used by cycle.travel!) www.math.uwaterloo.ca/tsp/korea/in...

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X9 now has “next stop” announcements and an information screen! Nice work Pulhams. (Long queue in the rain for Diddly Squat Farm Shop as we passed… sigh.)

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No HS2, 50% rise in bus fares, and the Great British Driver gets another treat. This is maybe the dumbest, pettiest thing I've seen yet. Why are they like this?

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Ride home from the pub

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I went to Ghent last week. Instantly my favourite city, ever. Spent most* of the day just walking around the quiet back streets and the canalsides. So many bikes! * also spent some of the day at Bar à l’Aise with a glass of Kwaremont watching the cyclists going by baralaise.be

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The sun is out and my walking map is on display at Charlbury station!

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Genuinely disappointing how many cycling apps (Komoot, RideWithGPS, BikeCitizens, Cyclers…) use the dishonest little “(i)” rather than properly crediting OpenStreetMap. OSM makes your entire business possible and charges you €0.00. Show some respect. (Pics: RWGPS, Cyclers, cycle.travel.)

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Can’t go up the Avon (Nafford and Strensham locks broken). Can’t go up the Severn (Bevere Lock broken). Can’t go down the Severn (4* bore expected). Can’t go up the Worc & B’ham (Tardebigge Top Lock broken). Could do the Droitwich, but did it a couple of weeks ago. Giving up on the boat for Easter!

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Looking for somewhere new to ride? Introducing Travel Tiles – a fun new way to challenge yourself to explore new places. As you ride, each hexagon lights up. See them in the cycle.travel route-planner so you can plan routes to places you haven’t been. Available right now in the Android and iOS app.

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This piece on why Germany should foster a “Digital Mittelstand” is particularly appropriate after the sale of Komoot, which could have been exactly that but now looks set to follow the enshittification playbook mertbulan.com/2025/02/24/w...

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