Supporting OpenStreetMap in the West Midlands.
Dudley, in the heart of the Black Country in the West Midands, is not the sort of place you’d envisage a rural walk. The Black Country is so-named for its iron and coal and industrial might. Some have claimed the … Continued
Man_made=street_cabinet is not the most popular tag or object to map: there are only 753 instances in the UK according to taginfo. However ……they are proliferating at what seems a high rate judging by my recent surveys. I started noticing … Continued
Greg Swinford has developed some tools for visualising Food Hygiene Rating Scheme (FHRS) and OSM data, finding possible matches between it and importing useful tags into JOSM. FHRS data is a useful source of postcodes and addresses, and it can … Continued
Last October I had the pleasure of visiting the National Library of Scotland. I was up in Edinburgh at State of the Map Scotland and couldn’t pass up on the opportunity to have a guided tour of the library’s maps … Continued
To take advantage of the good weather and light evenings during the summer months we tour around the region mapping areas which look either interesting or not well-mapped. So far this year we have visited Stratford-upon-Avon where we attempted to … Continued
Several years ago we created JOSM paint styles to help with the task of mapping gritting routes. The styles made it easier to identify which roads had the gritting tag. The recent versions of JOSM have changed the requirements of … Continued
Back in June of last year we shared with you Richard Fairhurst’s State of the Map US talk in which he set out the case for more mobile OpenStreetMap apps. One of the key message was that “we need to … Continued
Whilst surveying to collect data your day might be enlivened by spotting something out of the ordinary which might be of some interest or amusement to fellow mappers. (Sharing with family or friends usually just confirms their view of your … Continued
Yesterday the mapping community in the UK held an online “Night School” mapathon to hep map schools. So how did we get on? We did it! Yesterday we set the record for the highest number of edits to amenity=school features … Continued
This quarter the UK OpenStreetMap community is mapping schools. So far over 250 people have made 10,000 edits – a hugely impressive feat! There’s still time to get involved and on Tuesday 1st March we are holding “Night School”, an … Continued