One man's adventure mapping Durham and beyond, not knowing what lurks round the corner.
You know I love State of the Map (SotM), the conference for all things OpenStreetMap, so it was absolutely brilliant to lead bringing a Europe version to my city of Dundee. I ve written a few posts about the organisation of that, but I should also tell people my highlights and enjoyments. It wasn t the biggest [ ]
Creating a welcoming, safe, and inclusive conference is really important. State of the Map 2016 adopted a Code of Conduct that was primarily based on research I did from other conferences. It states what is and isn t allowed, but more important is how the Code of Conduct is enforced or rather what is done to [ ]
State of the Map Europe 2025 (SotM Eu 2025) took place in November in Dundee. This is a collection of posts following the event, to tell you how it went and help future organisers. In this post I m talking very much about the organisation of the conference, aimed at those that are putting on similar [ ]
State of the Map Europe 2025 (SotM Eu 2025) took place in November in Dundee. This is a collection of posts following the event, to tell you how it went and help future organisers. You may wish to just read my personal highlights of the conference. We sent out a survey link to all delegates [ ]
The international State of the Map conference often has a poster competition, and it s one of my favourite parts of the events. I love these gatherings of the OpenStreetMap community so it s quite something for me to have favourite parts! You can enter the competition whether you attend the event or not, and it s a [ ]
Are OpenStreetMap events meetups to far away from you? That was the case for me, so I started local OSM meetups. In this video I ll tell you how to run your own, and how to invite mappers along. 0:00 The location5:08 Find OSMers8:48 Messages sent10:10 What to bring15:25 What happened? OSM Cal for creating [ ]
Following from my initial work improving healthcare data in #OpenStreetMap, I planned a short walk to pass some locations that needed on-the-ground confirmation. This walk was partially successful, but what s also great is that others have been helping with the project in Dundee. More information about the project at…
Removing technical, legal and financial barriers for geospatial data is what #OpenStreetMap does and it makes many new applications and businesses possible including location-focused games! I start this video with an explanation on the dangers for the OSM project, then I dive in and open up the latest location-focused mobile game. This is Orna a [ ]
This project focus is on healthcare for 2025 Q2. I take a look at what that could mean, and use one of Rob s tools to see how well healthcare facilities are mapped on OpenStreetMap and if I can improve them. All UK Quarterly Projects are listed at https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/UK_Quarterly_ProjectRob s healthcare tool is available at https://osm.mathmos.net/healthcare/Discussion takes [ ]
Continuing my attempts to map all of Dundee in detail, I switch to the other side of Perth Road. While surveying I used osmAnd to record a gpx track, my phone s camera app, and Every Door to edit as I go. Back at my computer I used JOSM to geo-locate the photos and edit #OpenStreetMap [ ]