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Mapping the Tour de France
Grand Depart
Steer Davies Gleave
and
SplashMaps

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Working with Major Events
Cartography and Graphic Design
Bidding
Transportation Planning
Community Outreach

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Steer Davies Gleave’s
role in bidding: design

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Challenges Working
with Major Events
• Which Base Data to use…
• How to meet guidance…
• How to incorporate the style…

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World Direct Air Travel

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Visit daybook

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Tour de France Grand Départ 2014
• Transportation modelling and forecasting to predict
number of spectators along route
• Capacity of all transport modes
• Secure the “buy-in” of delivery stakeholders,
• Review draft Traffic Management Plans.
• Identify localised pressures and key location

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How SplashMaps got involved…
David Overton
David Overton, MD

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On the menu
Mapping start-up
TdF Case Study
Infrastructure for the future
Working with you
Follow: @splashmaps

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We feed users’ insights into
our design

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Designed for the REAL outdoors

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We highlight what’s
important
& personalise it

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& Can we do Unique??...

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A simple premise -
INDESTRUCTIBLE

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Cartography & design determined
by use

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How we made out Tour du
Nord map?
Invited by Steve Chilton
Clare Seldon becomes
Cartographer of the month
Socialise the prototype

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On sale & on show in Yorkshire Dales &
Peak District

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Specific detail – Leave your car, get
on your bike!

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#GeoMob

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OSM gives us freedom…
• OGC WMS service
• Outputting multiple scales
• Using Splashmaps map stylesheets,
• Regular updates from OpenStreetMap

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…to Internationalise

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So, what’s next?
•The next Cartographer of the Month?
•Demand led innovation
•More materials & print technologies
•Working with you?

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Do you have…
A sporting niche to address?
Military contracts?
Bespoke maps for a Premium niche?
Something else we hadn’t thought of?
david@splashmaps.net “cartographer
of the month”

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Follow, Find and Like…
•Twitter: @splashmaps
•Hash: #REALoutdoors, #geomob, #mapfaff
•Facebook: /splashmaps
•Web: www.splash-maps.com
•email: david@splashmaps.net