On Valentine’s Day this year (pure coincidence, I’m sure), the Louth task was finished. Dundalk had been excluded from the task, because it had had its own task previously. The task had been opened on the 12th of November 2024, so it took only about three months to complete. To 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…
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…
(This blog post only reflects my personal opinions and experiences, not of the whole OSM Ireland community or even the board.) Most of you will be familiar with Mapillary by now, once the go-to street level imagery due to its easy-to-use app and fairly good coverage in certain areas. Since 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 Carlow County task had been one of the first to be finished since the start of the OSMIrl_buildings project started, finished in May of 2020, to be precise. Naturally, that mapping data had become somewhat out of date, so I decided to open a task for just the town Read more…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…
Organized by OpenStreetMap Belgium (especially Joost) and sponsored by Meta, a GoPro Max with some equipment like an extra battery, the Insta360 “invisible” selfie stick and several mounts arrived on March 22 at my house. I had applied for one of the 10 cameras and was granted one to my Read more…
Portlaoise is one of the or even the fastest growing town in Ireland, and we have to try to keep up with its growth on the map. Therefore, a task was created on January 4th 2024 to map the missing buildings and highways. Sadly, there was only one mapper (myself) Read more…
As task no. 100, I created one for County Monaghan after a certain person complained that it had been neglected so far. It was created as a private task that only team members could work on (whoever “the team” is), because I wanted to look for unrecorded archaeological sites and Read more…
On January 7th 2024, the validation on the Connemara task (#17) was finished. A big thank you to all who made the effort! Top 10 Validators (There happened to be just those 10 validators.) username no. of tasks validated jonnymccullagh 1,035 b-unicycling 284 Eoin O’Mahony 31 Coirib 19 IpswichEdits 9 Read more…
The Drogheda task was finished on November 6th 2023, but is still awaiting some validation (EDIT 2023-12-16: All done now.). The task comprised of Drogheda town and rural areas to the north of the town. It had, once again, been one of those tasks that had been parked in 2020 Read more…
The Bray task (#13) was one of the many tasks started in 2019, but parked in 2020, because too many unfinished tasks seemed too daunting. It was finished on November 9th within very few days of being re-activated. B-unicycling decided to validate previously mapped tasks from 3-4 years ago first, Read more…
5:58pm on October 30th 2023, b-unicycling declared the mapping of Co. Meath in the TaskManager as “finished”. Of course that only means that the tiles had reached the status of “mapped”, a lot of validation is still required. The task had been re-entered into the task manager early in June Read more…
Our little group had gotten some promotion on the local radio station Community Radio Kilkenny City or CRKC where Anne aka b-unicycling was interviewed last week (listen back on Souncloud) about the group and OpenStreetMap in general. We met tonight in Bollard’s Bar where five people attended, four of which 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…
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…
(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…
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…
The following was originally posted by rorym in his OSM Diary. Original entry here In the UK they are doing a quarterly project to map more schools and there is a list of schools in Ireland from the Department of Education, but that only has addresses, not locations. I thought Read more…