Supporting OpenStreetMap in the West Midlands.
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
We are holding two meet-ups this month and to celebrate I’ve rehashed the alliteration in the title of this blog post from our from our March meetings post. I promise the meetings will be more exciting than my writing! Our … Continued
Following on from my blog recently about the tile in Birmingham Snow Hill Station to an unknown cat, I received a lovely email from the Press Office of London Midland, the railway company that manages the station. “I believe the … Continued
Snowhill station in Birmingham is undergoing a major refurbishment at the moment. This tile which is curiously situated about 6 inches off the floor opposite the automatic ticket barriers ( well they’re designed to be automatic for everyone with a … Continued
Warwickshire County Council have kindly provided access to aerial imagery captured during 2013. The imagery is available under the Open Government Licence and can therefore be used for mapping in OpenStreetMap. It comes at just the right time as many … Continued
On Saturday evening 22nd March at the Warehouse Café in Digbeth Birmingham members of mappa mercia received the annual Document Freedom Day Award 2014 on behalf of the OpenStreetMap Foundation from the Free Software Foundation Europe, whose members travelled down … Continued
Sometimes in order to build something better you have to start by taking something old down. That’s exactly what happened in Coventry this weekend. And as always OpenStreetMap was the first to reflect these changes. Coventry Friargate The Friargate project … Continued
The Notes feature available on the OSM home page is a great way to encourage non-mappers to add comments and point our errors and omissions (it’s also a great method for mappers too!) BUT …. now all the extant OpenStreetBugs … Continued
Earlier this week Alex (from Mapbox) posted an diary entry on OpenStreetMap with his reasons as to why he feels that OpenStreetMap should drop the “Share Alike” component of its licence. As you would imagine, this created quite a bit … Continued
One of the things we introduced at State of the Map 2013 in Birmingham was a “Pledge Wall”. The basic idea being that our delegates make a pledge to OpenStreetMap to be completed before the next State of the Map … Continued