Birmingham
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Description
Birmingham is regarded as England's second city, although residents of Manchester might dispute this. Strictly, Birmingham City is one part of a larger urban conurbation including Wolverhampton, Walsall, West Bromwich, Solihull and others.
Birmingham has 9179 roads (birmingham.gov.uk statistic)
Midlands User Group
To find out what's going on in the Birmingham area check out the MUG page
OSM Coverage
The city and it's metropolitan area are quite well covered by OpenStreetMap, the main motorway network has been mapped and many features are identifiable. Coverage spread from the North East, Erdington, Sutton Coldfield & Streetly, which was basically finished way back in 2006.
Postal codes
Streets with postal_code=*. Rendered by Kosmos with Kosmos postal_code rendering rules/uk :
Early rendering experiments
The area served as a test bed for some early renderer experimentation (2006)
Early versions of Osmarender:
 Raw data with no colour or other rules applied |
 Next stage with colour starting to show and icons appearing |
 Most of the West Midlands (missing coventry) as at August 2006. The large green area is Sutton Park |
Other experiments:
 Wider Midlands area in JOSM |
 Birmingham area |
 North-East Birmingham Area - GPS trackpoints only |
Steve also made this "movie" of the Birmingham edit status on 24 Jan 06
Users
The following users are involved in mapping Birmingham:
