CityCyclist: an iPhone app for city bike navigation

Hello, long time lurker here, committing a faux pas by making my first post a blatant advert...

I've just launched an city bike navigation app for iPhone, called CityCyclist. I wanted to build a clean and simple bike navigation app - something that would help a beginner cyclist find good routes, and maybe even help an experienced cyclist discover something new.

There's a really quick video on the site to give you an idea of how it works, and it's free in the App Store. UK only at the moment.

Under the hood it uses CycleStreets for the routing, which is based on OpenStreetMap. The place search uses Foursquare, so it's pretty good at finding stuff, and you can also just put an address or postcode in.

Anyway, if you give it a go, I'd love some feedback.

Ok, I've downloaded it and plotted a couple of routes that I know well to see what it would do.

First impressions were good, the maps are clear and easy to read, and routes given were sensible. Scrolling was reasonable fast and the elevation profile a nice touch. However, I haven't actually taken on the road yet.

In comparison to Bike Hub, another routing app I use, the maps on your app don't overlay your route with pre-existing National Cycle route, which for me is quite useful for country areas.

Another thing which I don't think your app does, but neither does Bike Hub is the ability to save the route and associated maps onto the phone so that if you don't have Internet access, or don't want to use up mobile data, you can still use the app.

Hope this help.

I use iArrow. A simple and very effective GPS app. Sometimes you just want to have a nice big arrow telling you where to go. This app does that perfectly. Very simple and clean interface but doing a lot of things. https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/iarrow/id626748307?mt=8

Thanks yoav, I'll take a look at showing NCN routes.