Outdooractive, Europe’s largest outdoor activity and tourism digital platform, has announced the release of its latest UK map update. This update includes work enabled by cooperation with Isle of Wight Council and Visit Isle of Wight to deliver the best interactive outdoor activities map for the Isle of Wight. Outdooractive’s new UK map is set to revolutionise the outdoor activity and tourism experience, providing a comprehensive and detailed resource for outdoor enthusiasts and tourists alike. With its extensive data integration and intelligent routing capabilities, the map offers unparalleled opportunities for adventure and exploration.
Created by its own team of cartographers, the unique Outdooractive map brings together authoritative datasets from multiple data sources and suppliers. The scalable, vector map also includes a fully routable path network, specialised activity networks for hiking, cycling, mountain biking, and winter sports, along with a range of useful map overlays including a photo map layer and public transport.
This Outdooractive map is available in the popular Outdooractive app, where consumers also have access to OpenStreetMap and Ordnance Survey maps, used to find adventure inspiration and for planning and navigating those outdoor activities.
In contrast to other outdoor apps, that usually rely just on OpenStreetMap as the vector data source for their map data, working with the Isle of Wight Council’s data and other data owners means the new Outdooractive map includes all of the detailed rights of way paths, including footpaths, bridleways, restricted byways and byways open to all traffic (BOATs).
Councillor Phil Jordan, Isle of Wight Council Leader with responsibility for Transport and Infrastructure said “This represents a significant contribution from our Rights of Way Team to improving information for visitors, residents and local business in how they find their way around our beautiful island. Modern technology has an important part to play, especially ensuring people have the most current information and quick means to access.”