-
London Mapping Festival
The GeoInformation Group are proud to support the London Mapping Festival 2011-2012. The London Mapping Festival (or LMF for short) is an exciting and unique collaboration between all parts of the geographic and mapping communities to promote greater awareness and understanding of how maps and digital geographic data are created and used.The festival will run from June 2011 to December 2012 and is a celebration of the innovation and creativity that is the UK’s mapping community, including surveying, GPS, remote sensing and aerial photography, GIS and cartography.
The festival draws together a whole range of existing events that are currently run by learned societies, professional bodies and commercial companies in and around London and will carry the LMF brand for the 18-month festival duration. Examples of activities, some of which are free to attend, include; workshops for schools, outdoor events such as geocaching and picnics, public lectures, professional conferences and mass participation activities.
Supporters range from Google Maps, Esri UK and the Ministry of Defence to the London Transport Museum, Kingston University and the londonist, as well as many commercial companies and several of the societies and professional organisations that make up the industry.
