Google Maps vs cartes.app, édition montagne.

I hate the fact that this is necessary but absolutely love that someone is doing it

The enshittification specialists who bought (already somewhat enshittified) cycling navigation app Komoot and sacked most of the staff.

Not sure today was the ideal day to go out on a research ride to freshen up cycle.travel’s Lon Las Cymru guide, but hey. Amazingly there are some puddles on the Old Coach Road section which are _still_ wet…

CAMRA‘s new beer report decries “faceless corporations”, “glittery packaging skilfully applied by marketeers“, and “passing off industrial beers as ‘craft‘”. It says “knowing where a beer has come from is important”. So why have they used AI from faceless corporations, not a real human illustrator?

And in contrast, look how good Machynlleth’s postcard is!

FIFA, nervous about the potential popularity of the Tour de France highlights on channel 5 at 7PM, consider moving the England game to earlier on Sunday evening. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

This was an entertaining tilemaker bug to track down! An area outside the usual bounds of web Mercator (-85° to 85°) was causing an integer underflow, and hence an out-of-memory situation. #BlameCanada

Seek Magic, Memory Tapes. First CD I’ve bought in ages, but it has mysteriously disappeared from streaming, and £5 on eBay was too good to pass up.

absolutely unnecessary stuff having 2FA these days. i do not need ITV to email me a code. i do not care if somebody sees which episodes of Midsomer Murders i've been rewatching this week

"labour is a socially liberal party" factoid actualy just statistical error. average labour cabinet minister is 0% liberal. bisexual roy, who does not live in a cave & wants people to have over 10,000 civil liberties, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

Cover of the Oxford Mail today is, even by their standards, and absolute disgrace

New walking and cycling ambition just dropped: someone has crunched river basins and elevation data to identify a European Continental Divide (and several branches, including one through Britain) continental-divide.eu/map/map.html

This is a stretch Citroen Ami with a face transplant from a Class 365

I wholeheartedly endorse this missive from our vicar who is scheming to despatch our church photocopier to the Other Place (hell, that is. Not a small Stratford theatre. Or Cambridge) www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/202...

Urban “quiet routes” are… literally LTNs? Which your party continually equivocates about? oxfordlabour.org.uk/labour-backs...

we see you www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

First new Durutti Column music since 2010! (And… Vini is rapping?!) www.youtube.com/watch?v=cd3b...

🎉 One million routes! The 1,000,000th route was saved on cycle.travel today – this lovely journey along the River Loire. Today also saw May 2026 tick over to be the busiest month on the site yet (4 days still to go!). Fittingly it was on this exact same stretch I snapped this road sign in 2019… 🚴‍♀️🚴🚴‍♂️

The guy who writes _the_ most unremittingly bleak, miserable books says “optimism is a moral duty”? Dude www.theguardian.com/books/2026/m...

With respect to those who say the major problem in the UK is growth / cost of living, I'm sorry but I think the way in which everyday life seems at the mercy of often completely unaccountable organisations is worse. And politicians talking in the abstract rather than lived experience.

Yes!!! Fawler to Ashford Mill (aka Evenlode Lane) please. This could make the National Cycle Network better beyond recognition.

THIS is the sort of English culture I want to protect. Ancient Junketing and quarter-century beefs (beeves?) about the difference between fools and clowns.

It’s not even the best pub in Charlbury, never mind the whole UK www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/2610800...

🎉 It’s happening! Direct Oxford–Bristol trains start on Monday, running every two hours from Monday to Saturday. Weekday Oxford departures are at 0700, 0903, 1103, 1303, 1504, 1904 and 2103: the journey takes ~1hr10.

As everyone is talking about Labour MP Wes Streeting, a reminder he thinks people cycling only need protecting for 2 hours a day (Mon-Fri). With magic bollards. And if you're a weekend visitor to London, none at all. And insurance, obvs. www.taxi-point.co.uk/post/2019/08...

it’s such shibboleth of modern politics to blame politicians for failing town centres when the primary driver is - surely - all of us buying more and more stuff online

And that’s why you’re reversing it, right? …right?

There’s a new Bob Delyn track? And it’s basically a more organic reworking of Ffair y Bala, their finest ever moment? 😍 www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGZT...

this really does make me despair. this is a woman who has just got elected as a Reform councillor. she works for the NHS and wants to know “where the money is going”. it’s going on social care, babe

Genuine excitement. After a bit of a delay the books are finally here. If you pre-ordered a copy it’ll be winging its way to you soon, or maybe right now.

What happened to Goat Maps? It was shaping up to be a really promising outdoor mapping app/site, from the original founders of GaiaGPS. But everything has gone quiet and it's disappeared from the App Store. @goatmaps.bsky.social www.goatmaps.com

Add a few emojis and an “Excited for what comes next” and I could believe ChatGPT had been elected Prime Minister of the United Kingdom observer.co.uk/news/opinion...

Playing out on our town website right now

This is lovely: a (fairly bare-bones) OpenStreetMap-based consumer mapping app, with custom cartography in video game styles. mapshifter.com

I did a six-mile school run in the Cotswolds for a couple of years without a 4x4 or, in fact, any type of car at all, but you do you uk.news.yahoo.com/potholes-own...

Xcode predictive autocomplete has decided my test data should be a house in Thamesmead for… reasons?

Sheesh, I really hope New Order don’t turn up for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. It’s the least Factory thing imaginable. Rob Gretton would describe it as “going to Ohio to talk to c***s”. If Peter Hook wants to hawk his tribute act on stage then let him. www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

Crazily hard for any of these guys to succeed. But I hope they do. The world needs more small platforms and fewer Metas

Andy Kershaw popped in to chat with me at Waterways World some years ago – he was thinking of buying a narrowboat and wanted some advice. (Plus one of his all-time favourite record shops, Henry's Records, was just up the road.) An absolute delight in person. www.theguardian.com/media/2026/a...

Just waved off Emrhys Barrell, founding editor of Canal Boat magazine, my old boss and someone from whom I learned a lot. (Fittingly, the route from the station to the crematorium was along the Kennet & Avon towpath.) Rest in peace, EGB.

Your regular reminder that if GDS were any use, they would have fixed this rather than futzing around putting everything under one domain, removing hierarchical nav and standardising on Transport typeface while pretending they’re pioneering

I just knew that something good was gonna happen

This is good on Bluesky user growth but really wrong on Bluesky viability. “Bluesky costs a lot of money to run” and “its user base is just too small to monetise” are both mistaken. Bluesky is run for tuppence ha’penny and its userbase is basically your ideal demographic for subscriptions. 🧵

Unprincipled populist nonsense.

what3words is an abomination.

Amazing that Press Gazette keep running headlines like this and they don’t mean Newsquest, Reach or whatever the other one is called this week pressgazette.co.uk/news/the-seo...

This is batshit.

L'application iPhone cycle.travel est désormais disponible en français. (Bientôt disponible sur Android!) apps.apple.com/app/id161963...