Cambridge: The GeoInformation® Group announced an innovative mapping programme. UKMap® is the UK’s first commercially funded, large-scale topographic mapping and address database created completely independent of Ordnance Survey®.
Started more than two years ago, the GeoInformation Group can reveal for the first time the full scale of the UKMap Programme. Employing more than 100 people across three continents, UKMap forms part of an ambitious five-year programme to map over 500 towns and cities covering all urban areas with a population greater than 10,000 — some 24,000 square kilometres throughout the UK.
London is the first complete UKMap city covering over 1,700 sqkm and will be available on 1 September 2009. Areas to be published in 2010 include the West Midlands conurbation, Merseyside, Manchester and parts of Yorkshire.
UKMap is a highly detailed, feature rich mapping database, which comprises integrated map layers and attribute tables. Captured for use at 1:1,000 scale, UKMap includes buildings with 3D information, road detail including pavements, lane markings, pedestrian crossings and speed humps, a full address gazetteer, inferred property boundaries, land use coding and a wide range of points of interest. It also includes aerial photography and terrain layers.
UKMap offers a significant amount of new and essential location information which is capable of supporting professionals within a vast range of applications including asset management, flood modelling, highway management, network planning, crime and incident analysis and urban design.
