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.
View our maps
Latest from the blog
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UK project to map petrol stations, recent community validation of third party (import) data has highlighted much outdated and erroneous data within OpenStreetMap :-(....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
Tracking our progress mapping petrol stations
When we did the highly successful quarterly project to map schools we tracked the progress using a script that collated data on a daily basis from TagInfo UK. This enables us to see... READ MORE