Becoming mobile: MAPS.ME and Geopedia
Back in June of last year we shared with you Richard Fairhurst’s State of the Map US talk in which he set out the case for more mobile OpenStreetMap apps. One of the key message was that “we need to … Continued
Unusual Objects – an occasional series
Whilst surveying to collect data your day might be enlivened by spotting something out of the ordinary which might be of some interest or amusement to fellow mappers. (Sharing with family or friends usually just confirms their view of your … Continued
“Night School” status report
Yesterday the mapping community in the UK held an online “Night School” mapathon to hep map schools. So how did we get on? We did it! Yesterday we set the record for the highest number of edits to amenity=school features … Continued
Welcome to Night School (1st March)
This quarter the UK OpenStreetMap community is mapping schools. So far over 250 people have made 10,000 edits – a hugely impressive feat! There’s still time to get involved and on Tuesday 1st March we are holding “Night School”, an … Continued
Schools project: When we map
In order to assist a conversation on Loomio about when to hold a “Night School” mapathon, I took a look at when mappers are most involved in the quarterly project to map schools. Data is based on Harry Wood’s School … Continued
How to map a school in OpenStreetMap
During the first quarter of 2016, the UK OpenStreetMap community are helping each other to map schools. If you have never mapped anything in OpenStreetMap before then here is a really simple picture guide to get you started. Step 1: … Continued
Who’s involved? Edits to OpenStreetMap
We have many ways to follow the progress of the fifth quarterly project – schools. One such method is to look at the changesets that include the comment “‘#OSMSchools”. We can visualise these as a map, or in this case … Continued
UK mapping hot-spots
It’s been a month since we started our fifth quarterly project, so let’s look at where the engaged OpenStreetMap contributors are editing. Read on to find out where the mapping hot-spots are and where we have missing map locations. Each … Continued
Mapped: Every school in the Outer Hebrides and Shetland Islands!
Progress on our fifth OpenStreetMap quarterly project – schools – continues to delight. Today we congratulate the HS (Outer Hebrides) and ZE (Shetland Islands) postcodes for becoming the first to reach 100% completeness! Not even a month in to the … Continued
“Real Time Mapping” – an update
Birmingham City Council is now well into its project to convert many of its streets to a 20 mph speed limit (see previous blog here). We’re receiving regular weekly updates as to what work will be completed in the current … Continued