Meetups
OpenStreetMap Ireland AGM 2024
Join us on September 21 for the AGM of the OSM Ireland chapter…
Open Data
Mapillary GoPro Max Grant arrives in Kilkenny
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…
OSM Ireland Buildings
Task Between Macroom and Cork Finished
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…
OSM Ireland Buildings
Portlaoise Task – Mapping Complete
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…
OSM Ireland Buildings
Co. Monaghan Task – Mapping Complete
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…
OSM Ireland Buildings
Connemara Task – Validation Complete!
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…
History
Fingal Task Finished
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…
Open Data
Buildings Project 2019-2023
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…
Open Data
Drogheda Task Finished
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…
Open Data
Bray Task Finished
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…
Open Data
Co. Meath finished
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…
Open Data
Léarscáil na hÉireann
Overview OpenStreetMap Ireland identified a need for a map of Ireland showing place names in the Irish language (Gaeilge) and to encourage more Irish language additions to OpenStreetMap (OSM). Some other mapping services show only town names in Irish when Read more…
Kilkenny History Mappers
2nd Kilkenny History Mappers’ Meeting
Our little group had gotten some promotion on the local radio station Community Radio Kilkenny City or CRKC where Anne aka b-unicycling was interviewed last week (listen back on Souncloud) about the group and OpenStreetMap in general. We met tonight Read more…
OSM Ireland Buildings
New Bing Imagery for Co. Carlow, Co. Kildare, Co. Offaly (etc?)
As of late June 2023, possibly earlier, it was noticed that new Bing imagery was available for Co. Carlow at zoom levels 18 and higher. This is especially important, since Maxar Premium imagery seems to be discontinued which had been Read more…
OSM Ireland Buildings
North Co. Clare Finished
Since we are depending on the very patchy distribution of new Bing aerial imagery, it was decided to only map the Northern part of Co. Clare in a task which was newly created. This consisted mostly of The Burren, so Read more…
Kilkenny History Mappers
Inaugural Meeting of Kilkenny History Mappers
As an initiative by Liamio2 and Anne (b-unicycling), the inaugural meeting of the Kilkenny History Mappers took place in the historical surroundings (difficult in Kilkenny not to have that) of Cleere’s Pub. Present were the above mentioned as well as Read more…
OSM Ireland Buildings
Balbriggan Task Finished
The Balbriggan task was created by DeBigC in November 2020, but had been neglected and put into draft status for a while in favour of larger tasks. It was re-activated in May 2023, and the mapping was finished shortly after. Read more…
Open Data
Connemara Task Finished
The Connemara task was one of the retired/ archived tasks which had been taken out of retirement in March of 2023. The task comprised of vast moon-like landscapes (at least that’s what it looked like on satellite imagery) with very Read more…
Open Data
Celbridge Task – 2nd Round
The project to map all buildings in Celbridge was an initiative by the Celbridge Community Council back in 2021. The task was finished relatively quickly due to the good participation. At the beginning of April, local resident and mapper Stephen Read more…
Meetups
Map & Chat April: Maynooth
For our map & chat on April 4th, we decided to put some work into missing buildings in Maynooth, because many new housing estates had been built since we worked on Kildare, and there was new, good Bing imagery. A Read more…