People's Map African Connections

One of the People's Map Partners, Geosense, has a data capture and processing division in Cape Town, South Africa. Four members of the SA Geosense team has recently been trained to collect data for the People's Map and are currently actively capturing all roads, to a scale of 1:100,000 mapping for the entire United Kingdom. They have started in the North and will systematically work their way down to the South West tip of England. They have already completed Scotland and have recently started with the North of England. We estimate that this capturing process will take no longer than 6 months and by Summer 2009, you should notice a significant improvement to all major roads throughout the Peoples Map.

Below are a picture of the XYZ Digital Maps trainers (On the flanks) and the Geosense data capture team in the middle.

Apart from the creating 1:100,000 scale data for the Peoples Map, this data capture team also create maps for ad hoc projects, like for instance the London Land Use project. They have captured all land use, like parks, sport fields, lakes, dams, etc for the entire London inside the M25. They have also assisted with the creation of the road network for the Bournemouth & surrounding areas. Images of this data can be viewed in previous posts on the People's Map Blog. Al this data was captured externally from the People's Map website and therefore you can not be viewed in the People's Map data layers yet. We are planning to import this data in due course.

They form a integral part of the Peoples Map data capture team and you will notice many further improvements made by them over the next few years. Between the South African team, the Scotland team and all other individual People's Map editors, we should hopefully map the entire UK at all scales in no time!