New Polygon Editor

We are pleased to announce that the newly developed polygon editor tool is now live. This tool allows you to digitize areas like lakes, parks, buildings, sport fields, etc into the People's Map. A example of the new toolbar and a created polygon is illustrated in the image below.

You will notice that when you complete the digitizing stage of creating a polygon, a extensive attribute list will appear that allows the user to select what type of land or building category has been created. Please choose the type that is most relevant to the area created.

To test this new tool, why don't you digitize your house, local sports field, etc onto the People's Map? If you can not view the polygon tool in your editor tool, press CTRL + F5 in your browser when you next come to the site. This will refresh the People's Map site and load the latest editor toolbar.

Please let us know if you have any queries regarding the new editor or any other features by emailing us at support@peoplesmap.com. We also look forward to receive your comments and suggestions via this blog.

From all of us here at People's Map, enjoy and get mapping!!

PS: As we speak new features and improvements for the Peoples Map are being developed and as soon as these are implemented into the live site, we will notify all users via this blog.

New People’s Map Blog

Dear People's Map users,

I would like to introduce myself – I am Chlodwik Rossouw and I have recently joined the People’s Map Partnership as the Project Manager. I have worked in GI services for the past 6 years as a user of various GIS data as part of the utilities, consulting as well as the local government sectors.

One of my main goals is to build a much closer relationship with our growing band of users. There is a lot going on in the People’s Map world – new users, new applications, new functionality and new datasets – and it is important that we keep you all informed about these developments. It is also important for us to receive feedback from you the users so that we can constantly improve the People’s Map service.

To help improve our communications we are launching this blog which we will be using from now on to keep you informed about People’s Map developments.

So please feel free to comment on any of the posts.

Enjoy & get mapping!!

Best wishes
Chlodwik