Date: Sat, September 20, 2025 · 12:00 Location: Digital Arts and Humanities Active Learning Space, University College Cork, T12 Y337 Online: link to follow closer to the event. We will cover the state of OpenStreetMap in Ireland, an update on the finances of the company and a series of lighting talks from the Read more
Now, I’m a bit late with this report, but better late than never. This was a very small and thus short-lived task, created on November 2nd 2024 and finished mapping by November 10th, then validation finished on November 19th. A lot of the town had already been mapped which explains Read more
The Northeast Kildare task had been reopened on September 9th 2024, and the mapping process was completed (apart from re-mapping after invalidation) on October 24th 2024. Six mappers worked on the task (b-unicycling, jmkie, DeBigC, Ivandor, IpswichEdits & peterm7), and so far, one person (craghead) has started the validation process. Read more
The 6th of September 2024 saw the completion of the mapping task of East Mayo which is, of course, still awaiting validation. The completion took over four years which sounds disappointing, but if you look closely at the timeline, you will see that nothing happened between November of 2021 and Read more
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
(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
The Saturday after the Newry Mapathon it was back down to NUI Galway, and the Insight centre, which after our presentation and workshops a couple of months before, held an OSM event as part of the Galway Science & Technology Festival. Local, veteran mapper and the ever busy Dave Corley, Read more