The mapping of task #46 North Kerry which had been opened on December 1st 2020 was concluded on May 17th 2026. Like so many others, it had been paused to reduce the number of open tasks in 2021 and was re-opened in December of 2025. The area had partly been Read more
If you have been around OpenStreetMap Ireland for a while, you might be aware of the Buildings Project which was kicked off in November 2019 in Kilkenny. This conveniently came just before the country went into lockdown which had everyone stuck at home and somewhat bored. At the time, we Read more
On March 16, Priscilla from TomTom’s OSM Community team (pzachee) posted in the OSM Ireland Telegram group about a task they had created in the US task manager for Ballybricken where they wanted all buildings mapped. In a DM, she said that Ballybricken had been chosen because “The gaps were Read more
After close to three years, the task of mapping all the buildings* in Co. Down was completed 13th March 2026. Progress was typified by larger squares in the earlier years of the project (poor design choice by jonny) with much splitting of tiles (looking at you Aka) later on. In Read more
The North Co. Galway task one was one I (b-unicycling) created and due to technical issues with the task manager could not publish for the first couple of weeks, so I was the only mapper working on it. A couple of days before its completion, I was able to publish Read more
On August 5th 2025, contributor Oxeelix validated the last task on the North Co. Clare project. This project had consisted of 1,001 tasks and had been started on December 5th 2023. We had 8 contributors on this task Timeline Stats on buildings Development between the end of the mapping and Read more
Since we get the question quite a lot of how to get up to date townland boundary data, here is a list of overpass-turbo links for each county. The file sizes per county can still be quite large, but hopefully it will help. Please hit “Run” after opening overpass-turbo, wait Read more
On Valentine’s Day this year (pure coincidence, I’m sure), the Louth task was finished. Dundalk had been excluded from the task, because it had had its own task previously. The task had been opened on the 12th of November 2024, so it took only about three months to complete. To Read more
Now, I’m a bit late with this report, but better late than never. This was a very small and thus short-lived task, created on November 2nd 2024 and finished mapping by November 10th, then validation finished on November 19th. A lot of the town had already been mapped which explains Read more
This issue arises frequently in our Facebook group when people “report” a wrongly spelled townland name on townlands.ie which, of course, gets its data from OpenStreetMap. The error cannot be fixed on townlands.ie directly, but has to be fixed in the OSM database on openstreetmap.org. What causes the mistakes? Before Read more
(This blog post only reflects my personal opinions and experiences, not of the whole OSM Ireland community or even the board.) Most of you will be familiar with Mapillary by now, once the go-to street level imagery due to its easy-to-use app and fairly good coverage in certain areas. Since Read more
The Northeast Kildare task had been reopened on September 9th 2024, and the mapping process was completed (apart from re-mapping after invalidation) on October 24th 2024. Six mappers worked on the task (b-unicycling, jmkie, DeBigC, Ivandor, IpswichEdits & peterm7), and so far, one person (craghead) has started the validation process. Read more
The Carlow County task had been one of the first to be finished since the start of the OSMIrl_buildings project started, finished in May of 2020, to be precise. Naturally, that mapping data had become somewhat out of date, so I decided to open a task for just the town Read more
The 6th of September 2024 saw the completion of the mapping task of East Mayo which is, of course, still awaiting validation. The completion took over four years which sounds disappointing, but if you look closely at the timeline, you will see that nothing happened between November of 2021 and Read more
Organized by OpenStreetMap Belgium (especially Joost) and sponsored by Meta, a GoPro Max with some equipment like an extra battery, the Insta360 “invisible” selfie stick and several mounts arrived on March 22 at my house. I had applied for one of the 10 cameras and was granted one to my Read more
There have been attempts to map the buildings in the very large county of Cork for a while; parts were covered by the WildAtlanticWay efforts, and other tasks for Cork had been created. This one focused on the area roughly between Macroom and Cork (leaving out Cork city), because it Read more
Portlaoise is one of the or even the fastest growing town in Ireland, and we have to try to keep up with its growth on the map. Therefore, a task was created on January 4th 2024 to map the missing buildings and highways. Sadly, there was only one mapper (myself) Read more
As task no. 100, I created one for County Monaghan after a certain person complained that it had been neglected so far. It was created as a private task that only team members could work on (whoever “the team” is), because I wanted to look for unrecorded archaeological sites and Read more
On January 7th 2024, the validation on the Connemara task (#17) was finished. A big thank you to all who made the effort! Top 10 Validators (There happened to be just those 10 validators.) username no. of tasks validated jonnymccullagh 1,035 b-unicycling 284 Eoin O’Mahony 31 Coirib 19 IpswichEdits 9 Read more
The Fingal task (no. 20) was yet another task that had been begun in 2020, but had been de-activated in favour of other tasks in November of 2020. It was re-activated on November 9th 2023 and the mapping finished on December 18th of 2023. Contributors There were 14 total contributors, Read more
The ambitious project to map all the buildings in Ireland started on November 30th 2019 in Kilkenny with the last in-person mapping event before Covid. Only we didn’t know that then. From a mapping perspective, Covid and lockdown was probably a blessing in disguise, because it gave us something useful Read more