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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 few buildings, apart from abandoned / ruined farms. Quite a Read more…

By Anne-Karoline, 2 weeks15-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 task was created for the task manager with the newly Read more…

By Anne-Karoline, 2 months11-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 – usually we just archive them shortly after they have been Read more…

By Anne-Karoline, 2 months11-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 than a week. The best quality imagery was Esri Clarity Read more…

By Anne-Karoline, 2 months06-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 this year. Newish and clear Bing imagery was available for Read more…

By Anne-Karoline, 2 months27-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 the number of contributors seems to have diminished since the Read more…

By Anne-Karoline, 5 months30-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 for providing fresh mapillary imagery focussing on Virginia which was Read more…

By Anne-Karoline, 6 months12-Dec-2022 ago
Open Data

Donegal task near completion

The mapping task for Co. Donegal as part of our ongoing #osmIRL_buildings campaign is very nearly finished. The task had been one of the first to be created at the start of the campaign in November 2019. However, it soon became clear that having too many tasks to choose from Read more…

By Anne-Karoline, 7 months16-Nov-2022 ago
OSM Ireland Buildings

Leitrim Task Finished

On October 3rd, the Leitrim task within the #osmIRL_buildings project was finished, i.e. mapped to 100% (8% validated). It had been re-opened around August 1st (we don’t exactly remember, but the ohsome.org statistics suggest that date). In the West of the county, Bing seemed to be the best and most Read more…

By Anne-Karoline, 8 months04-Oct-2022 ago
Competition

Announcing #MapPatrick21

Five days of mapping fun: Wed March 17th to Sunday March 21st The Christian Saint – Patrick – may have lots of doubts over who he was, where he came from, when his adventures in Ireland happened, and how he achieved magical things like banishing all the snakes from this Read more…

By debigc, 2 years08-Mar-2021 ago
OSM Ireland Buildings

#Mapvember Lockdown extravaganza

OpenStreetMap Ireland is having a second lockdown building mapping marathon over November and maybe beyond, with a video talk/s over the weekend. What are we doing? :- Mapping buildings in Ireland everyday in the month of November. Why? :- There is a lockdown, so we are making staying at home Read more…

By Tad Cantwell, 3 years07-Nov-2020 ago
Meetups

Socially distant mapping for Clonmel Heritage week

On the 15 of August, as part of National heritage week, the OSM community decided to focus on the historical town of Clonmel, since the central part of the island overall has less coverage compared to the coastal cities. With Clonmel rapidly base-mapped from satellite imagery the previous week all that Read more…

By Tad Cantwell, 3 years28-Oct-2020 ago
Competition

OSM Ireland Buildings Sticker Design Competition

OpenStreetMap Ireland was recently selected as one of the recipients of a OSMF 2020 microgrant. Our application: Microgrants 2020 – Proposal – OSM Ireland Buildings. As OSM Ireland we are keen to get as many people as possible to take part in the OSM Ireland Buildings project. Where we are Read more…

By Heikki Vesanto, 3 years29-Sep-2020 ago
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 other places as well. The first online event was held Read more…

By Tad Cantwell, 3 years20-Apr-2020 ago
Recent Posts
  • Connemara Task Finished
  • Map & Chat April: Maynooth
  • Leitrim Task Fully Validated
  • Longford Town Task Finished
  • Roscommon Task Finished
Upcoming Events (Global)
  • Alluvione dell'Emilia-Romagna: editathon e mapping party al Salaborsa Lab
  • Mapea por Mosquera
  • Resolución de notas en tiempo real - Real-time note resolution
  • MapRoulette Nights
  • MapRoulette Monthly Community Meeting
  • Missing Maps London Mapathon
  • South Bay Map Night
OSM for History Buffs
  • Tracking down milk churn stands in Latvia
  • Mapping urine deflectors on OpenStreetMap
  • Milk churn stand recording on OpenStreetMap (Version 2)
  • Recording milk churn stands to Wikimedia
  • Adding a milk churn stand using OSMAnd
Forum Discussions
  • Debugging help - Mourne, Gullion & Strangford UNESCO Global Geopark boundary
  • Northern Ireland 'super-council' boundaries
  • State of the Map Europe 2023 - invitation
  • TomTom MapRoulette challenge
  • Standardize on not including “River” in the `name` tag for rivers?

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