Supporting OpenStreetMap in the West Midlands.
When we did the highly successful quarterly project to map schools we tracked the progress using a script that collated data on a daily basis from TagInfo UK. This enables us to see how we are getting on, both in … Continued
Following a lengthy discussion on the talk-gb mailing list and several false starts, Ilya recently imported UK Shell petrol station data into OpenStreetMap.To confirm the quality of the third party data a brand new community validation tool was developed. Use … Continued
The city has more bus stops per kilometre than any other city in Western Europe according to an article published in the Birmingham Post. The revelation comes from a press release issued by Transport for West Midlands which is responding … Continued
Birmingham is in the grip of an industrial dispute by binmen which is causing rubbish to pile up on the streets due to missed refuse collections. Needless to say this is causing much consternation amongst the citizens and businesses of … Continued
It has been 8 years since the original NaPTAN (National Public Transport Access Nodes) data was imported into the UK space of OpenStreetMap in 2009. It was done on a piecemeal basis and only in areas where it was requested, … Continued
This month Amey released a number of open datasets to Birmingham City Council, which has published them on its Data Factory site under an OGL licence Amey maintains Birmingham’s highways under a 25 year Highways Maintenance and Management Service, which … Continued
It’s been a long time since I’ve found an object on my surveys that has left me perplexed. Neary two years actually. The cynical side of me thinks its probably I haven’t been curious enough or motivated enough to document … Continued
The attempts at secrecy surrounding the UK’s water supply became even more bizarre following my previous blog concerning the location of fire hydrants in the West Midlands, where making a map of fire hydrants is considered a threat to national … Continued
In the West Midlands our fire hydrant signs are generally placed on lamp posts: The black H on a yellow background I believe to be a UK standard. The upper number is the diameter of the underlying water main … Continued
On Saturday morning I received from Companies House the Certicifate of Incorporation for OpenStreetMap United Kingdom Community Interest Company Ltd. It is a private limited company, limited by guarantee. It’s taken us a year to get this far, through a … Continued