SplashMaps’ Pitch to Rich Branson
SplashMaps is looking to Richard Branson to help get maps on fabric to the broader public. VOTE SplashMaps using this link, until March 5th. SplashMaps excels in selling to high end specialists who really…
Tag: Innovation
Scouts competition winners!
That’s it! Put your pens, compasses, set-squares and rulers down! SplashMaps’ best Scout cartographer competition (run in collaboration with the Scouting Association and Scouting Magazine) is now closed. The Scouts competition winners will be…
Winning SplashMaps
It’s a fever pitched week for Winning SplashMaps! Firstly a frenzy of geo-businesses gathered at the Association for Geographic Information GeoComm conference in Warwick just to get their hands on our goods. Thanks Chris…
Fifth most influential mapper in the World
SplashMaps become the Fifth most influential mapper in the world! Sounds hard to achieve, maybe hard to believe… but here it is in raw stats! The most influential mapper in the world! The clever…
SplashMaps at the CycleShow
SplashMaps made an appearance at the CycleShow, Birmingham NEC. I love this event; it’s a great way to connect with this ever-changing industry and there’s heaps of innovation plus loads of spectacle. Firstly a…
SplashMaps win the Wallis award!
SplashMaps win the Society of Cartographers Wallis award for excellence in cartography 2014! Only one prize is given each year and this year was particularly well contested with 10 entrants in the final. We…
Top 2 consumer cycling magazines?
I love going to my newsagent and picking up cycling magazines these days. There’s something about the smell of the pages (I’m told it comes down to Kaolin content). I thought all these magazines…
Now you can Make-a-Map yourself!
SplashMaps now gives you the power to be your own map maker! Now you can Make-a-Map yourself! We launched the service on (what Companies House tell me) was our first Birthday at the Crowd…
Our own REAL outdoors specification
At SplashMaps we’ve done awfully well out of Open Data. It gives us the freedom to make our own “REAL outdoors” specification to counter the relatively crowded and unfocussed map offerings from more traditional…
Living outside the comfort zone
Some weeks remind us how different life has become since we at SplashMaps took the plunge with our dream for REALoutdoor navigation the weather cannot ruin. On Monday, during my radio interview with Mike…
