For our map & chat event on February 23rd, we had decided on creating a task in the taskmanager for the village of Lusk in Co. Dublin. A-Ka aka b-unicycling had chosen Lusk while she was mapping National Monuments in Ireland (read more in her diary) and noticed missing buildings Read more…
(Co-written by AKD and JMcC) 2022 was yet another very active year for OpenStreetMap Ireland. osmIRL buildings The buildings project was started in November 2019 and seeks to map all the buildings on the island of Ireland eventually. Even though the number of contributors seems to have diminished since the Read more…
At 5:20 pm on 12/12/2022, the mapping part of the Cavan task was finished today*. Special thanks go to local mapper AdrianLangtry who did great ground work in Cavan and Ballyjamesduff as well as to mapillary constributors debigc and Elomur for providing fresh mapillary imagery focussing on Virginia which was Read more…
The mapping task for Co. Donegal as part of our ongoing #osmIRL_buildings campaign is very nearly finished. The task had been one of the first to be created at the start of the campaign in November 2019. However, it soon became clear that having too many tasks to choose from Read more…
On October 3rd, the Leitrim task within the #osmIRL_buildings project was finished, i.e. mapped to 100% (8% validated). It had been re-opened around August 1st (we don’t exactly remember, but the ohsome.org statistics suggest that date). In the West of the county, Bing seemed to be the best and most Read more…
Inspired by the Celtic beginning of Spring âImbolcâ, on February 1st, we at OpenStreetMap Ireland are inviting you to a month-long spring clean on openstreetmap.org. We understand âspring cleaningâ as an effort of quality insurance which is of course very important when working with a dataset used the world over. Read more…
Surveying in Co. Cork has shown that there is not one route; but rather certain towns and villages are part of the Wild Atlantic Way (WAW). There seem to be routes for drivers, motorcyclists, caravan users etc. We will try to add those roads signposted with the blue zigzag line Read more…
Open JOSM. In overpass-turbo, search for “name”~”Wild Atlantic Way” and change the output file to xml ([out:xml]) or click here to open the query. The Wild Atlantic Way (WAW) has been split into sections so as not to go over the 2000 suggested member limit on relations. So the sections Read more…