Supporting OpenStreetMap in the West Midlands.
Here in England we are lucky to be surrounded by many historic buildings , and indeed our heritage is a big attraction for local and overseas tourists alike. To ensure that the most significant of our historic buildings are protected … Continued
When I first started contributing to OpenStreetMap there was a Project of the Week section on the OSM wiki. After much success this eventually came to and end in July 2011. Now, after a three year break, its back in … Continued
Appropriately 10 of us gathered at 6/8Kafé to celebrate 10 years of OSM. It was satisfying to see that our email campaign of contacting most users who had contributed to OSM in the midlands brought along six people to their … Continued
On 31st July the mappa-mercia gang of mappers descended on Shenstone for our monthly pub meeting. It was a glorious summer’s evening which confirmed our strategy of getting out and about around the region during the summer months to take … Continued
It’s always good to see the hard work you’ve put in surveying and editing being put to good use. I came across www.blackcountryhistory.org recently whilst researching listed buildings in Wolverhampton. As you can see it uses OpenStreetMap as the default … Continued
OpenStreetMap’s 10th birthday party is on Saturday Aug 9th. We’ll be celebrating here in the West Midlands complete with birthday cake alongside scores of other cities and communities around the globe. It’s hard to believe just how much we’ve developed … Continued
On Saturday we held a mapping party in the Warwickshire village of Tysoe (it’s really Upper, Middle and Lower Tysoe) strung out along the foot of Edge Hill. Edge Hill was the site of a Civil War battle in 1642 … Continued
I’ve slowly been getting in to mapping more residential addresses in OpenStreetMap. In theory this sounds quite an easy task – you have an odd side and an even side of the road, and you count up in 2’s. In … Continued
TagInfo is a website that allows you to explore tag usage statistics in OpenStreetMap. That is, unlike the wiki documentation which describes how tags should be used, TagInfo reports on how tags are actually being used in OpenStreetMap. I’ve previously … Continued
It was the sad duty today for Andy Robinson and I to pay tribute to Mike’s contribution to OpenStreetMap at his memorial service, for Mike died on 28th April 2014, aged 78. Mike was a stalwart of the local OSM … Continued