[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Digital Birmingham

[Brian Prangle]

I had a long ( approx 3 hour) meeting with Annette King, the Project
Innovation Manager for Digital Birmingham, today. She is very enthusiastic
and seems pretty committed.  I even had to edit some data near where she
lived because she’d spotted it was incomplete! What she has committed to do
is as follows:



1.       They have a giant projector on order and she will arrange to
display the Birmingham map onto  a building for us – maybe in the Mall at
the ICC

2.       We have space for a stand at their Transport Summit (FOC)on
27thMarch at the City Hall Banqueting Suite with WiFi access –about
200 City
Council and Partner staff involved in public transport will be there.

3.        She will put a story about us in the Birmingham Bulletin (goes to
120,000 homes) and wants to arrange a mapping party sometime in May and
publicise it as a Leisure Fun Event.

4.       She will introduce us into the 4 pilot schools trialling their
Digital Schools Program.

5.       She will try and get either form BT or the Highways Dept the
locations of all the lamp-post WiFi point for Birmingham FIZ (Free
Information Zone- a walled garden about Birmingham services and facilities)
if we will then render her a map - maybe we just go out and survey them –
might be quicker.

6.       She will contact British Waterways to see what data she can get on
Canals such as mooring points, water points, waste disposal points and
footpath access points, also  there’s a similar WiFi AP project for the
canals which she’ll try and get data for us.

7.       She will put me in contact with the web developer for the local Age
Concern who want to put all kinds of information on their website but are
finding Google Maps licence to be too restrictive. Might need some help on
this one (Mapstraction tools?)

8.       She’s also going to see if she can get the data on BCC car park
capacities for us

9. We'll get some coverage on their website also

Hopefully out of this we'll get some professional interest and maybe
assistance and more importantly lots more mappers! As always this is Local
Government so things will take time


Regards


Brian
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