Mappa Mercia is a project to grow OpenStreetMap in the West Midlands, UK. We run community events, provide training and support local organisations wishing to open up their data.
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Joy Diversion: Mapping in Manchester
Saturday 19th May saw the UK OpenStreetMap community and Open Data Manchester join forces for an afternoon of exploring central Manchester. Several mappers from the Midlands made the trip and boy, did we... READ MORE
Conflation & Validation: OSM Conflator
When Ilya approached the UK OpenStreetMap community about incorporating third party data (Shell petrol stations) into OSM he had already ran the data through his “OSM Conflator” tool. As part of the project... READ MORE
The streets they are changing
The streets they are a changing The view along our streets is about to change thanks to the mobile phone and OSM mappers are presented with a vast new challenge. BT are... READ MORE
Petrol stations with a fixme tag
As we described when we kicked off this quarters UK project to map petrol stations, recent community validation of third party (import) data has highlighted much outdated and erroneous data within OpenStreetMap :-(.... READ MORE