Supporting OpenStreetMap in the West Midlands.
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
Mappa Mercia was at the 2 day Birmingham Highways Data Challenge hackathon last weekend where numerous datasets relating to highways and transport were made available. We won a prize for developing an HS2 HGV Traffic Heat Map. It’s not the … Continued
Scattered around the West Midlands at bus interchanges are numerous sculptures, commissioned by the transport authority, Centro. They were commisioned and erected in the early optimistic years of the current century. They are quite striking and try to reflect the … Continued
Congratulations to everyone who has participated in the various UK Quarterly Projects. We were nominated for an award at the recent international State of the Map 2016 conference in Brussels. Unfortunately we weren’t awsome enough to win, but it’s nice … Continued
Our Summer project which ended on 30 September was to map as many farmyards as we could. 1. We added 1499 farmyards, which compares to an increase of 853 schools for the schools project which seems to suggest farmyards was … Continued
Today saw us pass the 1,000 total for farmyards added during this project(1008 to be precise). Well done to everyone who has participated. What has been the most unusual farm name anyone has come across? Picture Wikimedia Commons: Rod Trevaskus … Continued
Yesterday the Birmingham Post (our weekly city newspaper) carried a story about the number of accidents on major Birmingham roundabouts. The recently reconfigured roundabout at Bordesley Circus, with an accident every 20 days over the previous six years is the … Continued
August sees mappamercia celebrate its tenth birthday – can you believe it? We didn’t celebrate with a birthday cake but we did meet in Pershore Worcesteshire on Saturday 6th August at the Pickled Plum pub for lunch between morning and … Continued