[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Digital Birmingham

[Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)]

Brian,

Absolutely fantastic. Great news all round. Look forward to discussing on
Thursday.

Cheers

Andy

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>westmidlands-bounces at openstreetmap.org] On Behalf Of Brian Prangle
>Sent: 26 February 2009 3:25 PM
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>Subject: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Digital Birmingham
>
>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 shed 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 27th March
>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 theres a similar WiFi AP project for the
>canals which shell 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. Shes 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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