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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Drone Imagery from the Seventeenth Century
If ever you are visiting the city of Lille in northern France take some time out to visit the basement of the Palais des Beaux-Arts, home to fourteen relief maps of fortified French... READ MORE
Mapping a New Town being developed on a vanished national landmark
It’s not often you get the opportunity to map a completely new town from the ground up, so mappa-mercia volunteers (all four of us) descended on Houlton, next door to Rugby Warwickshire to... READ MORE
UK Defibrillator Map
Over the last few days there has been significant national press attention to a project to create a map of the locations of public defibrillators. The project is a collaboration between the British... READ MORE
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