[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Interconnect Birmingham

[Brian Prangle]

Dear John

Reading the press release at
http://www.geoconnexion.com/geouk_news_article/Bluesky-Aerial-Photo-Reveals-Birmingham-City-Life/11440
and
specifically "It is hoped that the interactive map, which will feature
visitor attractions, hotels, green spaces and other features of interest,
will help improve the experience of visitors to the city and support a multi
channel, multi-modal movement and information system"  I'm trusting that you
will be using OpenStreetMap http://www.openstreetmap.org/ as your base
royalty-free map.

Residents in Birmingham ( and visitors who are mappers) have spent may
thousands of hours surveying Birmingham , editing data and even raising
money for 50 sq km of aerial imagery.  Using OSM will minimise your costs
and also your project delivery time.  Our royalty-free digital map already
has over 800 car parks, 400 places of worship, 800 listed buildings, 100
hotels, 500 schools, 132,000 buildings( 24,000 of them with full postal
addresses) and is updated on a daily basis by several dozen mappers. Our map
also has bus stops, bus routes and is already used by Birmingham City
Council to display its winter gritting routes
http://mappa-mercia.org/gritting-map.shtml. There is also a cycling map
derived from our data http://mappa-mercia.org/cycle-map.shtml

Birmingham is one of the best digitally-mapped cities globally within
OpenStreetMap. For an example of what we've achieved see
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=52.47584&lon=-1.89794&zoom=15&layers=M. As
the data is available to you in XML format you are not obliged to use our
cartographic style - there are hundreds available and of course you are free
to design your own.

Looking forward to your reply and a dialogue to discuss how we can help you.

Regards

Brian Prangle
0121 604 1141
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