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 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 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 Read more
Date: Sat, September 20, 2025 · 12:00 Location: Digital Arts and Humanities Active Learning Space, University College Cork, T12 Y337 Online: link to follow closer to the event. We will cover the state of OpenStreetMap in Ireland, an update on the finances of Read more
The OpenStreetMap 21st Anniversary Birthday party will be celebrated on 9th August 2025, from 1pm to 5pm Irish Time feel free to join the online meetup at: https://osmvideo.cloud68.co/user/joo-nq7-ghw
Join us for a dive into how Large Language Models (LLMs) and an MCP (Model Context Protocol) Server can be combined to build an AI-powered chatbot that queries the OpenStreetMap (OSM) database. This session will demonstrate the working code—available on GitHub—for both the backend and frontend components.
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, 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 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 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 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 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 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 Read more
b-unicycling celebrates a 10 millionth edit and OpenStreetMap’s recent 20th anniversary by live stream mapping in East Mayo using the JOSM editor. You can join in with the task here: https://tasks.openstreetmap.ie/projec…. The video describes settings and plugins.
Join us on September 21 for the AGM of the OSM Ireland chapter…
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 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 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 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), 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 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 Read more