The Bike Hub Cycle Journey planner is a sat nav app for cyclists. It routes cyclists along quieter routes designed for riding. Whilst it has a UK focus it is able to route in various other countries around the world.
Our work on this app was to reimagine what the app could be. The original app was designed several years ago and had become a little stale. In this app we started from scratch. That fresh start was quite liberating and let us think about what the app should be and how it should work with the technology that is available today.
Proven Sports Technology Expertise: From Tour de France to Consumer Apps
Our redesign of Bike Hub reflects decades of cycling technology expertise. As Official Technology Partner to Team Sky for BSkyB (Sky Corporation) from 2010-2015, we delivered professional-grade GPS tracking systems used by Tour de France champions, mastering the complex challenges of real-time route navigation, performance data visualisation, and geolocation accuracy under demanding conditions. This elite partnership expertise directly informed our consumer sports apps: Map My Tracks has served millions of cyclists globally since 2007, achieving #1 App Store ranking in Health & Fitness.
View related case study: Team Sky: Elite Sports Technology Partnership
At its core, the Bike Hub app uses the CycleStreets routing engine to generate the routes for riders. The app makes use of map data from OpenStreetMap, map tiles from Thunderforest and a rendering engine from MapBox.
The app includes three map styles including the classic OpenCycleMap, Ordnance Survey Opendata and our very own map style designed specifically for the Bike Hub app. As with most routing apps the Bike Hub app comes packed full with options to save favourites, share routes, explore and route to nearby points of interest like bike shops or cafes.
This release is only just the start. In the production pipeline are more new features that include ride recording, syncing with Map My Tracks and other services, integration with Wahoo RFLKT and Apple Watch.
The Bike Hub app is available for iOS and Android phone and tablet devices. It's a free app so go grab your copy now.
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