The People's Map is Growing!!

The Peoples Map data coverage is growing by the day. So far, the peoples map users have created more than 100,000km of roads , 40,000 town & place names, 12,000 points of interested, 17,000 km of railways, 30,000km of rivers, 18,000sqkm of land use polygons and also 3,000qkm of lakes & dams.

Currently the following cities are complete: Edinburgh, Glasgow, Birmingham. Cities like London, Cardiff, Bath and Brighton are also making very good progress and we are expecting to have complete datasets for Central London, Bath and Isle of Wight by the end of this year. Town centre's for Exeter, Plymouth, Penzance, Padstow and St Ives have also been created. We have also noticed that editors have started to work in Swindon, Bristol, Portsmouth, Reading, Leicester & Norwich.

Unfortunately some editors have not yet started work on a few significant UK cities and towns like Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle, Leeds, Nottingham & Northampton.

Although this article reflects how much data has already been created, it also highlights that we have quite a bit of work ahead of us to complete a UK wide data set!

Essential Maintenance

The People's Map website is undergoing essential maintenance today and you will therefore only be able to access the site in "view only" mode. This means that you can unfortunately not create or edit any mapping objects during this time.


The maintenance is scheduled for completion by close of play today, but the users will find that they might still only be able to access the "view only" mode. All users will be able to access the edit mode before the end of the week. If you do not have access by this time, or would urgently like to use the People's Map, please contact us via support@peoplesmap.com and we will assist you with the problem.

We appologise for the inconvenience caused!!

The People's Map team

Future People's Map Developments

Dear users,

I am pleased to say that the polygon editor tool is working smoothly. Just to refresh those users that have not yet utilized this tool: It allows you to digitize polygon areas like lakes, parks, buildings, sport fields, etc into the People's Map and classify them according to pre-determined land use categories. This tool allows users to create greater map detail to be added to the People’s Map.

The People's Map team is constantly working on improving the tools and functionalities in order for our users to create better, more accurate data with ease. Although these are only in planning/development phase, I wanted to keep you informed of what improvements you can expect to see in the coming months.

The main improvement you will notice is an increased map screen and a general menu layout improvement. A functionality to split roads is also being developed. This will for instance allow users to split the geometry of an existing road, delete less accurate section and re-digitize the new more accurate section. This tool will also be helpful to digitize the exact path of roundabouts in a road. We are also working on creating another zoom layer in Peoples Map that will allow users to view more detail aerial imagery and allow you digitize building outlines, parks, etc more accurately.

Since the People's Map is a mapping tool for the people, we would like to keep improving the tools and functionalities according to the requirements of our users. We therefore rely on you to inform us of any improvements that can be made to the existing functionalities and tools.

We look forward to receive all your comments and suggestions. If you do not want to comment directly on this blog, please feel free to send us an email to one of the following People's Map addresses.

info@peoplesmap.com

support@peoplesmap.com

Regards,

Chlodwik