Since we get the question quite a lot of how to get up to date townland boundary data, here is a list of overpass-turbo links for each county. The file sizes per county can still be quite large, but hopefully it will help. Please hit “Run” after opening overpass-turbo, wait Read more
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
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
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.
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 much that an upgrade is needed!  The administrator (RoryM) 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 now 100%, with just County Cavan remaining to complete Ulster.
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 site may have already noticed that multiple language icons have 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 few weeks. With Louth and Kilkenny done and Dublin following Read more