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…