We are currently working to arrange events around the island of Ireland for 2020, in coordination with our new community project that will be announced soon. There will be mixture of online events and events around the island of Ireland, similar to 2019 that collaborate with universities, a hackerspace and […]
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The last meet of the year was in Kilkenny at the New Work Junction co-working space, on the 30th of Nov. It was attended by local people, and people from the Dublin, Wexford and Galway among other places. As a change to the previous meetup, after a short introduction, those […]
Kilkenny Event Blog
As mentioned in the post on the Newry mapathon high quality drone imagery was available to map with. Here is a tutorial on how to access it and use it in the ID editor or JOSM for mapping. To access this wonderful imagery go to www.openaerialmap.org, first go to click […]
Using drone imagery of Newry
The Saturday after the Newry Mapathon it was back down to NUI Galway, and the Insight centre, which after our presentation and workshops a couple of months before, held an OSM event as part of the Galway Science & Technology Festival. Local, veteran mapper and the ever busy Dave Corley, […]
Community Event – NUI Galway
1 On the 16th of Nov Newry Digital, a group dedicated to building the local tech community held an OpenStreetMap Mapathon event as part of their work to build up employment in the area. There was attendance from children to adults who know about the place from the groups work running […]
Community Event in Newry
3 In 2008 the State of the Map was held in Limerick, Ireland and ever since there have been utters and suggestions that there should be an official local chapter in Ireland. Roll on to State of the Map 2019 and OSM Ireland has now recognised by the Open Street Map […]
OSM Ireland is now an official chapter!!
After our successful launch in October, it is time to get back into the swing of things and start our meetups again. Tog in Blackpitts will be the venue again, and their informal and relaxed common area will be used to map, socialize, learn and share. Ciarán Staunton has offered […]
OSM meetup TOG Dublin 24th Nov 2018 @ 11am – ...
Further to our ongoing effort, we have now introduced SSL connections to planet.openstreetmap.ie Now you can be sure that your downloads are coming from the OSM Ireland server, https://planet.openstreetmap.ie
Let’sEncrypt SSL for Planet.OpenStreetMap.ie subdomain
1 Well we have finally hit 95% townland coverage for the entire island!! It definitely feels like we are on the home stretch now and will hit 100% coverage in a few months time. The following is a screen-shot from www.townlands.ie And a map showing the areas which have still […]
Targets hit this week – 24th May 2016
OpenStreetMap (OSM) Ireland members will meet Saturday 23rd of April in Dublin and do OSM mappy stuff on laptops in TOG. Like an indoor mapping party / hack day / social meet up / barcamp. If you’d like to learn more about OpenStreetMap, come along! Want to start mapping your […]
Meet Up – April 2016
2 The following was originally posted by rorym in his OSM Diary. Original entry here In the UK they are doing a quarterly project to map more schools and there is a list of schools in Ireland from the Department of Education, but that only has addresses, not locations. I thought […]
An attempt to geocode the list of schools from Dept. ...
Rory has added a nice heatmap to the townlands.ie website ( http://www.townlands.ie/page/maps/ ) which changes colour based on when the townland was added to the database. The image below shows the state of play on the 27th January 2016.
Townland Heat Map
1 One of our members, Brian Hollinshead, has been doing stellar work gathering out-of-copyright map sheets for use in updating OSM data around Ireland, one example being the Townland boundaries. The biggest issue with using these sheets is often its quite difficult to get them scanned to an appropriate quality to […]
Collaboration with Blueprint Reprographics
The OSM community have just surpassed the 47,000 townlands mark! Earlier last week http://www.townlands.ie, stopped updating (new townlands stopped appearing as they were added). After an investigation into the problem it was found that the database had grown so much that an upgrade is needed! The administrator (RoryM) […]
Targets hit this week – 23rd December 2015
My name is Dermot, and I’m a Mapaholic. I started adding bits of Ireland to OpenStreetMap early in 2007 and I haven’t stopped yet. When I started, there were pockets of coverage and a few interurban roads mapped. But basic things like a coastline were still missing. I was immediately bitten […]
90 Young mappers and one flabbergasted older one!
Firstly congratulations to Stephen_Co_Antrim on achieving 10,006 townland’s!! Given that there are approximately 64,000 townland’s in Ireland, he has completed about 1/6th of the Island all by himself! Meanwhile townland coverage stands at 45,424 (74.3%) with County Monaghan now 100%, with just County Cavan remaining to complete Ulster.
A few targets hit this week – 28th November 2015
I’ve been meaning to write about OpenStreetMap Ireland‘s townland mapping project for some time. It’s a wonderful example of how historical maps are of significant value in creating really useful data on OpenStreetMap which is just as relevant as it today as was in the past. The immediate reason for […]
Irish Vice Counties
“Good puzzle would be cross Dublin without passing a pub,” muses Leopold Bloom in James Joyce’s classic novel Ulysses. Back in 2011, our own Rory McCann answered this question as reported in the Guardian and showed how it could be done using OpenStreetMap as the source data. However, the data was […]
The Dublin Pub walk question….answered….again
Townlands.ie is a project maintained by Rory McCann, which shows Ireland’s historic and current administrative divisions using data from OpenStreetMap.org and Logainm.ie. He has called for people to help translate the site into different languages. Some of you using the site may have already noticed that multiple language icons have […]
Help translate townlands.ie
Back in June a number of OpenStreetMap Ireland mappers came together with Open Knowledge Ireland to help create an interactive dashboard on the current state of patient waiting lists in Irish hospitals. One of the people present on the day, Dan Alexandru Bujoreanu, has a nice write up on the current […]
HSE patient waiting list data – visualised by OSM Ireland ...
Just a very short and quick post about townland mapping progress. In the last few days Louth (brianboru), Roscommon (NoelB) and Kilkenny (murtcostello) all hit 100% completion for townland coverage. The next county likely to finish is Dublin (brianh) in a few weeks. With Louth and Kilkenny done and Dublin following […]