I am
pleased to be able to tell you about a new website,
Bikemapper.org.uk, which I hope you will be interested to visit.
The
purpose of this website is to facilitate the study of a revitalised London
Cycling Network. Primarily we are seeking to establish which sections of this
network are functional and which are not, and from here we should be able to
build up a complete picture of the current cycling environment. It is hoped
that, in turn, this would help to inform the debate about where future
investments in cycling would be best placed.
The
website is aimed mainly at people who have an interest in developing an
amenable cycling environment in the capital, but recognising that many hands
make light work, if you do happen to have any photos of the London streetscape
that are just sitting on your hard drive doing not very much, then please upload
them onto the photomap.
Bikemapper
was made possible because of a number of people, beginning with Ben Irvine from
Cycle Lifestyle, who is responsible for the London Cycle Map Campaign, and who,
together with his girlfriend Becks, took us through to the finals of the
Geovation Challenge. My sincere thanks to them, and also to Chris Parker at
Ordnance Survey, whose excellent idea it was to support innovation in
geography.
My
thanks also to Martin Lubikowski from ML Design, who has worked with me since
2005 (check out the map tour). Also to Jon Haste from KOLB and Stuart France from
Stuff Animated for their inspirational work. To Josh Coleman and James Nash from
Bike Dock Solutions for their generous sponsorship of £500, and to Willy and
Guy Pearson from Pearson Cycles, who let me have a bike. (Not a Pearson
bicycle, unfortunately, just an off-the-shelf number. Drat.)
I would
like to thank Oph, who very kindly allowed me to stay in his house for the
period of the streetscape study, and also Chris and Saffron. They organised a
bit of a party for everyone some time before I left, and it was here that I had
the enormous good fortune to meet a talented young man named Fela, who very
patiently and competently has worked with me since then to develop the website.
But
mostly I would like to thank my family, who have been my rock. Thank you so much
for everything that you have done for me.
