mastodon 4.8.0-alpha.3+glitchCycling Guide is a free mobile app for people who want to ride their bicycle more than they do now. It provides the best available low-stress, cycling friendly routes.
The app is maintained by the Cycling Guide Foundation (Registered Charity Number 71553 3345 RR0001).
Currently our app provides routes in:
- Waterloo Region and Guelph, Ontario,
- Sarnia-Lambton, Ontario
- Ottawa, Ontario
- Halifax, Nova Scotia
It's now available for iPhone and Android.
Try it 😀 🚴🏼 🚴🏼♀️ 🚴🏿♂️ 🧭
We're excited about what we're doing in 2026.
And that includes launching in Nova Scotia, Canada! We launched in Halifax Regional Municipality last summer, and we're going province-wide in 2026.
To do that, we’ll need beta testers from across the province. You can sign up for our beta program using this form.
Please boost for visibility 😀🚴🏼♀️❤️
Hi everyone. It’s Giving Tuesday, so I guess we should do a post here about Cycling Guide Foundation — we're not very good at this kind of request! 🤣
As many of you know, Cycling Guide is a free mobile app that provides the best available low-stress, cycling-friendly routes. Cycling Guide Foundation is a registered charity and the home of the app. It’s easy to make a one-time or monthly donation. And we’re now on Benevity, a corporate giving platform that some local company’s use — some of them will even match employee donations!
Please consider a donation to our foundation. It helps us keep the app free for everyone, and helps us make updates and add new features to the app.
We're happy to answer any questions you might have 😀🚴🏿♂️🚴🏼♀️🚴🏼❤️
Thanks!
#WaterlooRegion #HalifaxNS #OttBike #Sarnia #BikeTooter
https://cyclingguide.org/become-a-cycling-guide-foundation-supporter/
In yet more community-oriented news, our Executive Director, Mark Connolly (@uxmark@mstdn.ca), did a presentation at the December @kwlug@thecanadian.social meeting. He spoke about our approach to routing, and how we use and process OpenStreetMap data. And people had some great questions, which made for a wonderful conversation. It's still fairly approachable, though, and anyone interested in the topic may learn something new!
Check it out the recording 😀🚴🏼♀️🗺️
Here's something cool. Communitech is a tech advocacy organization in Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada, where our Cycling Guide app was built and first released.
Our Executive Director, Mark Connolly (@uxmark@mstdn.ca), appears on the latest episode of Communitech’s Tech About Town podcast talking about our mobile app, our Foundation, and what we're trying to do to support people cycling. Check it out. The link below goes to Apple, but this episode should be available wherever you get your podcasts.
We neglected to share this previously!
Our free Cycling Guide mobile app is supported by the Halifax Climate Investment, Innovation and Impact (HCi3) Fund in Halifax. We're proud to have launched in Halifax Regional Municipality, and excited to continue to make progress with our partners at @cyclehalifax@mastodon.social
https://www.hci3.ca/grant-recipient-profiles/cycling-guide-public-launch-for-hrm
We have exciting news to share. Cycling Guide 2.0 is now available in Google Play Store for Android and the App Store for iPhone. It has plenty of improvements. See the details here, and please try it out if you haven’t before.
Happy cycling! 😀 🚴🏼♀️ 🚴🏿♂️ 🚴🏼
#BikeTooter #Cycling #WaterlooRegion
https://cyclingguide.org/2025/04/announcing-cycling-guide-2-0/