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 Naturally, that mapping data had become somewhat out of date, so Read more…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…
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 Read more…
The Drogheda task was finished on November 6th 2023, but is still awaiting some validation (EDIT 2023-12-16: All done now.). The task comprised of Drogheda town and rural areas to the north of the town. It had, once again, been Read more…
The Bray task (#13) was one of the many tasks started in 2019, but parked in 2020, because too many unfinished tasks seemed too daunting. It was finished on November 9th within very few days of being re-activated. B-unicycling decided Read more…
5:58pm on October 30th 2023, b-unicycling declared the mapping of Co. Meath in the TaskManager as “finished”. Of course that only means that the tiles had reached the status of “mapped”, a lot of validation is still required. The task Read more…