In 2019 as part of a geospatial data research and development project, the Open Data Institute (ODI) invited public sector organisations to propose projects that collect, publish and use open […]

Responding to the increased frequency of weather-related road closures and the difficulty of securing government funding to mitigate the risks, a group of 14 councils organised in the South West […]

The University of Northampton’s new Waterside Campus may have opened in September 2018 but even by early 2019 it remains a comparative wasteland on map providers such as Google Maps. […]

There are many people that live with sight loss for which taking a trip to shops or visiting a nearby tourist attraction can be stressful and often has to be […]

Birmingham City Council redesigned their approach to intelligent mobility through the release of open data sets for traffic sensors using OpenStreetMap for speed, cost and open-ness. The publication of traffic […]

CycleStreets is a social enterprise, promoting cycling by the provision of UK-wide information on cycle-friendly routes, and various tools for cycle advocacy groups. CycleStreets is one of the earliest high-profile […]

In 2011, the University of Cambridge needed to update its map services for visitors, new staff and students. Unlike most UK universities, it does not occupy a campus: it is […]

OpenOrienteeringMap (not to be confused with the new OpenOrienteering Mapper project) is an orienteering map of the world, based on OpenStreetMap data. There are three formats; Street-O Plus, Street-O Lite and Pseud-O. […]

Bexhill is a rather traditional British town – it has a lot of independent businesses and a wealth of history. Local mapper Alexis Markwick wanted to herald this with an […]

The Megalithic Portal is an international site with extensive data and over 150,000 images of ancient sites from all over the world. The site is much more than a map-based […]