People’s Map - A User Created Non-Crown Copyright Map of the British Isles
The People’s Map is a project from GetMapping, The XYZ Digital Mapping Company and remote sensing specialists Geosense. It launched an update to its site on Wednesday, though I just caught wind of it today. I don’t think I’ve heard of it before.
Essentially, the project hosts GetMapping imagery for users to trace to create a non-Crown Copyright map for non-commercial and commercial use. Users register and create data using online editing tools. The data is verified (not clear by whom, how fast or how) then added the map. Use is not quite free for non-commercial use; there is a “delivery charge.” For commercial users, there are “fair perpetual licensing arrangements.” I could find no details on how prices are determined for either group on the Map website.
The data is rendered at 14 scales and “can be delivered as hardcopy, from 1:10,000 through to 1:1,000,000 scales, and in electronic raster and vector file formats. It is also available as a web feed either through WMS or via the People’s Map Javascript API. Vector datasets consist of the following data layers: Admin Boundaries, Buildings, Built Up Areas, Coastline, Contours, Drainage, Land use, Place name Gazetteer, Points of Interest, Roads and Railways. All these layers are available at all scales.”
To date coverage includes: 1:1m coverage of the British Isles, street map data for Edinburgh, Glasgow, Cardiff, London, Birmingham, Bournemouth, Bath, Milton Keynes. 1:100 000 coverage for the whole of Britain is expected to be complete by the summer of 2009.
