This issue arises frequently in our Facebook group when people “report” a wrongly spelled townland name on townlands.ie which, of course, gets its data from OpenStreetMap. The error cannot be fixed on townlands.ie directly, but has to be fixed in the OSM database on openstreetmap.org. What causes the mistakes? Before Read more…
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 December 18th of 2023. Contributors There were 14 total contributors, Read more…
Prolific mapper b-unicycling has recently been acknowledged in the Kilkenny People for her discoveries of previously unrecorded crannogs. Anne-Karoline Distel discovered the crannogs while mapping the County Cavan task, reporting them to the National Monuments Service. This discovery adds to her previous finds of enclosures in County Tipperary in May Read more…