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…
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…
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…
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
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…
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…
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…
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.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 Read more…
“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 Read more…
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 Read more…
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 Read more…
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 Read more…
Although created a long time ago, Rory’s work has popped up again, this time on Jalopnik. Check out the article here
So at the last meetup one thing everyone agreed was that we need to get moving on forming into a proper entity. Its something that has been spoken about off an on for the last 2 years and something which Read more…
Sadly, due to lack of publicizing about this meetup and the relatively short notice given, turn out was pretty low for this event. However, the nature of the conversations and demo’s went to a deeper level due to the smaller Read more…
This post is copied from the OpenCage Data Blog Today we continue our country profile interview series, this time chatting with Dave Corley about OpenStreetMap in Ireland. Things have come a long way since SotM 2008 was held in Read more…