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.

Product Samples

The People's Map is a work in progress and although we do not have map coverage at all scales for the entire UK, it is our mission to capture this. Here follows a list of images illustrating some of our products:

People's Map 1:10,000 Scale City Data

People's Map British Isles 1:200,000 Scale Data

People's Map British Isles 1:1million Scale Data

Apart from the above raster datasets, we also hold various other vector datasets like UK Admin Boundaries, UK Postcode Boundaries, Railways, Coastline, Rivers, Lakes, Mountains and all the vectors used to compile our raster products.

If you would like to obtain more detail regarding our products or request a sample, please contact us at sales@peoplesmap.com.

They've made it to Barcelona!

Here is a letter from Paul and Chris who drove their £200 banger from Calais to Barcelona in aid of the MapAction charity:

"We made it!

Firstly, as we hope you are now all aware, we made it all the way to Barcelona in our £200 car without any major mishaps along the way.

Secondly, and more importantly, we made our fund-raising target thanks to the overwhelming generosity of YOU - our supporters. Thank you very much. In fact we have shattered our £3,000 target by a long way. When the gift aid element is added onto what has been donated so far, MapAction currently stand to receive almost £3,900 from this event.

Thanks are due also to our corporate sponsors, without whom we couldn’t have taken part in this event. Between them they have more than covered our costs and we have been able to divert an additional £1,000 into the charity. Not forgetting those who supplied the maps, the tracking facility and repaired and serviced our trusted car – The Green Goddess - now living a life of retirement in Barcelona (we hope)!

David Spackman, Chief Executive of MapAction, has asked us to pass on his own vote of thanks:

“MapAction is hugely honoured and impressed by the efforts of Chris and Paul to undertake the Barcelona rally on behalf of MapAction. The daily blog proved fascinating and we were glad of the opportunity to follow their GPS tracklog along the route. We were particularly pleased that they dropped into the MapAction office on their way. They did splendidly well and we’re proud of their sense of fun, practical hard work, and charitable aims.

We would also like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who supported the redoubtable duo and who made very generous donations to MapAction. It was a wonderful gesture by all those involved and MapAction is greatly appreciative for the kind donations. It has given us all a great fillip.

For the record during the car rally MapAction had volunteers in Papua New Guinea, Kathmandu, Panama, and in Norway/Sweden. We are about to despatch volunteer teams to Sri Lanka with the Mines Advisory Group, to Pakistan with the humanitarian logistics centre, and a separate team to the regional office of the UN in Islamabad. The money raised therefore by the car rally has helped MapAction to provide its present humanitarian GIS service. I hope all our donors will take satisfaction from this current record of charitable effort.

So special thanks to, and admiration for, Chris and Paul in the first instance, and a heartfelt thank you from MapAction to everyone who donated so generously.

David Spackman, Director MapAction”

So thanks again for all your support.

Best wishes

Paul and Chris"

The People's Map would like to congratulate Paul and Chris again on undertaking this challenge for a great cause!