OSM Ireland Buildings
Map at home event update
The week long event mixes a focus on a particular task and online events that help boast mapping skills. Monday 20th CorkTuesday 21st DerryWeds 22nd GalwayThursday 23rd LimerickFriday 24th NewrySaturday 25th DroghedaSunday 26th DerryMonday 27th CorkBut feel free to map Read more…
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#StayHomeAndMapIRL
OpenStreetMap Ireland is organising a week long, online mapping campaign on its present #osmIRL_buildings task starting on Monday the 20th April and running until the following Monday the 27th of April. The mapping campaign will be interspersed with video sessions, Read more…
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YouTube channel Launch
Openstreetmap Ireland is proud to announce our new Youtube page for videos related to mapping on the island of Ireland, starting with a tutorial for a complete beginner to start contributing to the Building Ireland project which can be watched Read more…
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Events for 2020
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, Read more…
Meetups
Kilkenny Event Blog
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 Read more…
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Using drone imagery of Newry
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 Read more…
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Community Event – NUI Galway
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 Read more…
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Community Event in Newry
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 Read more…
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OSM Ireland is now an official chapter!!
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 Read more…
Meetups
OSM meetup TOG Dublin 24th Nov 2018 @ 11am – 3pm
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 Read more…
OSMIE
Let’sEncrypt SSL for Planet.OpenStreetMap.ie subdomain
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
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Targets hit this week – 24th May 2016
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 Read more…
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Meet Up – April 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 Read more…
Open Data
An attempt to geocode the list of schools from Dept. Ed. leads nowhere
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 Read more…
Townlands
Townland Heat Map
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.
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Collaboration with Blueprint Reprographics
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 Read more…
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Targets hit this week – 23rd December 2015
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 Read more…
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90 Young mappers and one flabbergasted older one!
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 Read more…
Townlands
A few targets hit this week – 28th November 2015
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 Read more…