People’s Map Wins Silver Award

The People's Map of London received a Silver Award in the Best Digital Product category at the recent International Map Trade Association (IMTA) Gala Awards Dinner. The annual awards ceremony, part of a two day conference held in Bayonne, France, attracted entries from all over Europe, the Middle East and Africa. The awards were presented by Allen Carroll, President of Cartography for National Geographic, whilst other guests came from as far as Australia and the Dominican Republic to see the latest mapping developments.

Over 40 entries were received for the three different award categories being awarded, Best Wall Map, Best Book or Atlas and Best Digital Product, with an overall winner going forward to the World Best Map at the IMTA Global event later this year.

The People's Map received the highly commended silver award for its 1:12,000 scale mapping of Central London which was launched in November 2009. Covering over 400 sq km stretching from Richmond Park in the South West to Epping Forest in the North East the mapping was derived from high resolution aerial photography captured by Getmapping. A number of businesses and private individuals used the simple online editing tools to create the mapping. All data was then verified and rendered by mapping experts XYZ prior to publication.

"There were numerous mapping products of a high quality in the Best Digital Product category, so to walk away with a silver award is fantastic, and it really highlights the high quality mapping we are able to deliver using the People's Map process," said Dr Tim Rideout, Director of the People's Map partnership who was there to pick up the award.

The People's Map is already available for the whole of the UK at 1:1,000,000 scale with the 1:100,000 scale map currently in production. 1:12,000 scale street mapping is also available for Birmingham, Glasgow, Edinburgh and Bath, as well as other cities in progress such as Bournemouth, Brighton, Cardiff, Portsmouth, Southampton, Coventry and Milton Keynes. The People's Map of London can be purchased from www.getmapping.com.

London Map Samples

The People's Map of London was launched yesterday and following this announcement, here are a few sample images of what the raster product looks like. These will you a good idea of what to expect from the entire product.

Islington & Emirates Stadium

Westminster & Victoria Station

Southwark & Millwall Football Club

Tooting & St George's Hospital

If you are interested in either the complete raster maps or any of the vector products, please contact us at sales@peoplesmap.com

More info on the People's Map of London: http://peoplesmap.com/London.pdf

People's Map launch London

We are proud to announce the launch of the brand new People's Map of London.

The People’s Map of London covers 400 sq km stretching from Richmond Park in the South West to Epping Forest in the North East. The rest of Greater London (inside the M25) is in final verification and will be available in early 2010.

Apart from London, we also have complete 1:12,000 scale street mapping of Birmingham, Glasgow, Edinburgh and Bath, as well as other cities in progress such as Bournemouth, Brighton, Cardiff, Portsmouth, Southampton, Coventry and Milton Keynes.

Over the next few years we aim to complete and maintain comprehensive mapping of the whole of Britain; we have already completed the whole country at a 1:1m (mini atlas scale) and we are well on the way to completing the 1:200,000 road atlas scale.

This first class mapping product comes with fair and flexible licensing too. Since the People’s Map is entirely free of third party copyright, we are able to offer you a flexible solution based on your exact requirements.

To download a PDF with more details on the People’s Map of London please click here.

All Time Contributor Stats

Here is a list of the top 10 all time People's Map contributors. You will notice that JohnB, who won the Find Freddie competition, has moved into the top 10 for Point of Interest, Line String and Polygon creation with his efforts over the last few months.

In all three feature categories the People's Map is still in top spot since we originally imported the skeleton data, but are also constantly adding more data as part of our commercial projects.