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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

By Anne-Karoline, 2 years26-Dec-2023 ago
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

By Anne-Karoline, 2 years17-Nov-2023 ago
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

By Anne-Karoline, 2 years15-Nov-2023 ago
map of Co. Meath in the OSM task manager
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

By Anne-Karoline, 2 years15-Nov-2023 ago
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OpenStreetMap Ireland AGM 2023

Join us on November 4 for the AGM of the OSM Ireland chapter…

By Donal Hunt, 2 years08-Oct-2023 ago
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

By Jonny McCullagh, 2 years12-Sep-2023 ago
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

By Anne-Karoline, 2 years18-Jul-2023 ago
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

By Anne-Karoline, 2 years06-Jul-2023 ago
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

By Anne-Karoline, 2 years05-Jul-2023 ago
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

By Anne-Karoline, 2 years20-Jun-2023 ago
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

By Anne-Karoline, 2 years07-Jun-2023 ago
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

By Anne-Karoline, 2 years15-May-2023 ago
task manager Celbridge
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

By Anne-Karoline, 2 years15-May-2023 ago
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

By Anne-Karoline, 2 years11-Apr-2023 ago
Open Data

Leitrim Task Fully Validated

On April 8th 2023, Jonny (jonnymccullagh) announced that he had validated the last tile of the Leitrim task. This is big news and a great achievement, because it rarely happens these days that a whole tasks is validated completely – Read more

By Anne-Karoline, 2 years11-Apr-2023 ago
OSM Ireland Buildings

Longford Town Task Finished

The Longford town task had been created in 2020, but was then “parked”, because the large choice of tasks hindered the completion of any of them. It was revived after the completion of the Roscommon task and finished within less Read more

By Anne-Karoline, 2 years06-Apr-2023 ago
Road sign for county Roscommon
OSM Ireland Buildings

Roscommon Task Finished

March 25th 2023 saw the final touches on the Roscommon task, that is the mapping stage was completed; validation is still required. It had first been created in August of 2022, but the bulk of attention was given to it Read more

By Anne-Karoline, 2 years27-Mar-2023 ago
3D rendering of Lusk
Meetups

Map & Chat February: Lusk village

For our map & chat event on February 23rd, we had decided on creating a task in the taskmanager for the village of Lusk in Co. Dublin. A-Ka aka b-unicycling had chosen Lusk while she was mapping National Monuments in Read more

By Anne-Karoline, 3 years04-Mar-2023 ago
OSM Ireland Buildings

A look back at 2022

(Co-written by AKD and JMcC) 2022 was yet another very active year for OpenStreetMap Ireland. osmIRL buildings The buildings project was started in November 2019 and seeks to map all the buildings on the island of Ireland eventually. Even though Read more

By Anne-Karoline, 3 years30-Dec-2022 ago
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Armchair archaeologist locates unknown crannógs

Mapper b-unicycling has had an article published about her discoveries in the Anglo Celt: An “armchair archaeologist” has literally put ancient Cavan crannógs on the map. Anne-Karoline Distel has discovered three previously unrecorded crannógs, which have been confirmed by the Read more

By Jonny McCullagh, 3 years23-Dec-2022 ago
OSM Ireland Buildings

Cavan task complete

At 5:20 pm on 12/12/2022, the mapping part of the Cavan task was finished today*. Special thanks go to local mapper AdrianLangtry who did great ground work in Cavan and Ballyjamesduff as well as to mapillary constributors debigc and Elomur Read more

By Anne-Karoline, 3 years12-Dec-2022 ago

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