17th August 2009 – As the People’s Map readies itself for the impending launch of its 1:10,000 map of London it has announced details of a new competition to help find and verify points of interest (POIs) for inclusion on the map. A POI can be anything from a restaurant to a gallery, a football stadium to a pub. With the base map nearing completion it just remains to ensure that it contains the richest set of POIs currently available and this provides the rationale for the competition.

To enter the competition people need to register as an editor at www.peplesmap.com and then start plotting the POIs with which they are familiar. There are tutorial videos available on the site for anyone who is not sure what to do. There are two prizes of £250 worth of Love2shop gift vouchers, the first for plotting the location of Freddie, a fictional Australian sightseer lost at some tourist destination in London and the second for the person who plots the most POIs. The competition runs until the end of September.
 
The People's Map is a web-based mapping project, which allows users to create their own mapping online by ‘drawing’ over Getmapping aerial photography. Users simply register and map everything from roads and land use through to points of interest, using the simple online editing tools. Newly created data goes through a thorough verification process to ensure that it is accurate and correct before it is added to the final 'verified' People’s Map layer, where it is rendered into 14 different scales.

The People’s Map also sports a growing range of derived mapping products. These 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