Supporting OpenStreetMap in the West Midlands.
Switching on the OS Locator imagery in JOSM for missing/mismatched UK road names is a great way to see what needs to be done in any area when you’re editing. You can enable this in JOSM from Preferences, selecting the … Continued
What makes contributing to OSM so enjoyable is the unexpected discoveries it throws at you. Today I went surveying in West Bromwich to resolve two OS Locator road name issues. Neither was in any remarkable and apart from adding a … Continued
We’re trying to build the UK OSM community with Quarterly Projects – our first project is FIX THAT ROAD NAME. If you’re new to all this then the first port of call should be the OS Locator wiki page. It’s … Continued
There have been a couple of threads on OpenStreetMap’s mailing list this month to do with change. The first, entitled “Request for feedback: new building colours in openstreetmap-carto”, is all to do with a change to the way the default … Continued
At a recent pub meeting mappa-mercia mappers felt that UK OSM contributors are all busy on their own specific projects and apart from the occasional discussion on the talk-gb mailing list don’t really get together as a community. Compare that to … Continued
A long and as usual heated debate took place recently amongst the UK OSM community about the status of place nodes within large cities, prompted by a mapper changing a large number of place names to a blanket tag of … Continued
I’ve meaning to visit Boscobel House and the Royal Oak for some time. Rationale: it’s relatively nearby and it’s an essential visit for anyone interested in in English History. Boscobel House sits on a 615 mile long distance path known … Continued
This month on Thursday October 2nd we were lucky to be invited to present the local work of OpenStreetMap to the Beacon Roads Cycling Club at Rednal Social Club. BRCC is active in South Birmingham and Worcestershire, with about 150 … Continued
We previously showed how to create a simple map of pubs using Overpass to extract data from OpenStreetMap and uMap to display the data on a simple zoomable map. In this short update we show how to manipulate the data … Continued
In the previous post we showed that creating a map to show location data as a collection of pins (map markers) is easy using OpenStreetMap tools. But what if we wanted to keep that map up to date? In this … Continued