People’s Map Underpins Edinburgh Festivals Guide

Visitors to this year’s Edinburgh Festivals including the Fringe were able to locate the numerous venues for the thousands of events with a new map based on the People’s Map of Edinburgh. The map produced by the Festival Fringe Society was available stand alone at A3 sponsored by Becks and also bound into the Official Guide to the Fringe sponsored by Magners.

People’s Map enables map makers to create their own styles and colour ways and then add data relevant to specific use, safe in the knowledge that the base map provides the vital geographic foundations. The large A3 map features colour coded locations for all the main Edinburgh Festivals’ venues including the International Festival, Art Festival, Fringe, Book Festival, Jazz & Blues Festival, Edinburgh Mela and the Military Tattoo. The map also contains information on Edinburgh’s wide variety of year round tourist attractions, bus and rail routes and much more. The smaller bound-in map provides information specific to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

This quality, detail and scale of mapping also exist for Birmingham, Glasgow and soon to be London. Apart from using this data for just map creation, this data is also available in GIS vector formats and also via the Openlayers API and People's Map WMS service.

Monthly stats are back - July 2009

The data capture stats are back from this month onwards. Below are the top ten People's Map contributor's stats for the month of July.

You will notice that the stats for each geometry type of points, lines and polygons are displayed for the 1) last month as well as 2) a all time contributors list.

The "Find Freddie" Competition

The People's Map has launched a competition today , called "Can You Find Freddie", where a total of £500 worth of high street gift vouchers can be won.

Freddie is an Australian tourist on holiday in London doing what tourists like to do best; visit the sights, check out bars and link up with friends who are over here to. There are many great sights to visit in London and in Freddie’s excitement to get out and see them all; he forgot to take a map with him. During his first day of sight seeing, he managed to get himself lost at one of London’s many tourist attractions and he now does not know where to go next. He needs your help!

In order for him to find his way and get his trip back on track, he needs you to help him create a tourist map of London by capturing as many genuine London points of interest as possible on the People’s Map.

The first person to add the point of interest where Freddie is lost will win £250 worth of High Street shopping vouchers! You add the points of interest via the editing suite in the People's Map. We have the location of Freddie written down in a secured golden envelope.

That’s not all. The person who adds the most genuine points of interest of London, to the People’s Map will also win a further £250 of High Street shopping vouchers!

The competition will run from the 1st of August 2009 to the 30th of September 2009, which therefore gives you two full months to “Find Freddie” and help him create a tourist map of London.

For more information, please visit the competition page: http://peoplesmap.com/Competitions.aspx

We look forward to announcing the winners in three months time!

Good luck and please let us know how you are getting on via the blog or forum.

Transport Planning for Major Sporting Events

The People's Map and Getmapping exhibited at the "Transport Planning for Major Sporting Events" yesterday. The conference was held in Barbican, London where various industries specializing in the transportation and major events organisations were present.

Our stand, advertising our raster, vector and bespoke products, as well as Getmapping's vertical and oblique imagery solutions, drew many visitors from a variety of industries. Some of these industries were Planners, Event Security, Local Authorities, Transportation Information Solutions and Transport Map Makers.

In this day and age, maps and spatial products can be utilised in some or other way in almost every industry you can think off.