Geoawesome In their quest to find #TheNextGeo businesses that define our sector, Geoawesomeness chose SplashMaps to be the first in their reviews of “companies to watch”. So this is what it’s like being geoawesome! …
5 Years! SplashMaps is 5 years old today! Now as it’s our birthday, it’s a great time to look back at those stand-out moments on our quest to make the best outdoors maps in…
What’s a Gimmick? “Is it a gimmick” I was recently asked by BBC Radio Solent when they came to interview me at the Tec-Hub space in Eastleigh. “Gimmick” suggests to me a flash-in-the-pan, temporary…
The Affable Entrepreneur Evan Davis brands me the Affable Entrepreneur. So I guess my poker face approach never really happened. So what really happened that day at Dragon’s Den? What did the final edit…
SplashMaps started with just 1 map in December 2012! Amazingly, by mid-2013 our maps were available for all our National Parks. By November we could offer anywhere in Great Britain printed onto our…
It’s a week of Trail testing the SplashMap in the South Downs. At 10pm on Saturday evening I received a call from Jon. “It’s Jon, Friend of John” said Jon. The Colden Common Sad…
We are so pleased that Alastair Fee, BBC business correspondant picked up SplashMaps and our Kickstarter. On the eve of the Outdoors Show the BBC broadcast our film 6 times at breakfast, noon, dinner…
Dear All It appears the BBC like the story so much we are getting at least 5 slots in the day for our film on Wednesday. But don’t blink! They will be short slots….
Fame at last! The BBC (after a couple of radio broadcasts on our work) have decided to risk their cameras on one of our Mountain Bike rides in the New Forest! Thankfully the new…
Hi All As you know from previous posts, there’s been good media interest in SplashMaps. Trade magazines in the Geo-world pick-up on the open data aspects, the local radio on the story behind our…