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 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 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 Read more
Join us for an Easter Map & Chat online! Fun, educational chats while adding data to OpenStreetMap! For the Easter 2026 Map & Chat b-unicycling and jonny will be demonstrating JOSM and sharing mapping techniques. Whether you’re a map whiz Read more
The Ohsome website allows generating statitics but expects the input as a list of coordinates rather than geojson. The first step is to download a goejson shape of the project from the Task Server – look for the button highlighted 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 Read more
OpenStreetMap Ireland and Queen’s University Belfast hosted a mapping event on 21st Feb 2026 to introduce new users to contributing to the map. We started with a presentation by Jonny and Conor explaining the benefits of open mapping After the Read more
A Mapathon has been organised for Saturday 21st February 2026 from 11am to 1pm with food provided at QUB Geosciences building on Elmwood Avenue behind the Student’s Union. Numbers are limited to 30 attendees. Sign up on eventbrite here.
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: We will cover the state of OpenStreetMap in Ireland, an update on the finances of the company and a series of lighting 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