Supporting OpenStreetMap in the West Midlands.
Last week saw me surveying Ward End Park in Birmingham. This park had had no attention from OSM mappers since it was first surveyed in 2009 and so looked a good candidate for the quarterly project. Aerial Imagery also showed … Continued
Every Quarter (3 months) the OpenStreetMap UK embarks on a community project to improve the map and, whilst working together, to build our community. The final quarter of 2019 saw us trying to fix some of the FIXME and … Continued
It’s been fascinating mapping the changes during 2019 for the major junction improvements under way at the Iron Lane junction in East Birmingham; long tolerated by users of the A4040 Outer Ring Road for generating long waits especially for users … Continued
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 cities. These intricately detailed maps (really they … Continued
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 do just that on a wet Saturday … Continued
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 Heart Foundation , Microsoft and the NHS. … Continued
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 have fun! Our hosts had prepared some … Continued
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 he also created a “Community Validation” tool. … Continued
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 scrapping half of the 40,000 phoneboxes on … Continued
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UK project to map petrol stations, recent community validation of third party (import) data has highlighted much outdated and erroneous data within OpenStreetMap :-(. For the Shell import we captured some … Continued