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Do wonder if this type of work should be released as open source to help solve this problem across multiple countries.


They have been saying since they started that they were trying to open source the project. See eg this blog:

http://www.cyclestreets.net/blog/2012/01/09/open-sourcing-ef...

And, tantalisingly, the codebase is on github - it's just that the main bit - the routing engine - is not open:

https://github.com/cyclestreets


We're almost there with the open-sourcing, I'm pleased to say.

Sadly this process has taken far longer than we hoped because the codebase, which was started about 6 years ago and which was not started with open-sourcing in mind, ended up with a lot of things like embedded passwords, deploy scripts, people's names, API keys, etc. There's been a mammoth effort to deal with that. The entire deployment system has had to be rewritten, for instance, and that done while trying to keep a very busy production system running that also hosts a pile of third-party sites without downtime.

http://www.cyclestreets.net/blog/2013/01/31/scripting-cycles...

Really are almost there, at last, and it will be a real relief to us, not least to be using Git rather than SVN!




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