There have been attempts to map the buildings in the very large county of Cork for a while; parts were covered by the WildAtlanticWay efforts, and other tasks for Cork had been created. This one focused on the area roughly between Macroom and Cork (leaving out Cork city), because it was covered by the 2021 Bing imagery, whereas other parts of Co. Cork were not.

The task was opened on January 25th 2024 and finished (only the mapping, mind, validation is still outstanding) on February 24th 2024. (I had the audacity to go on holidays in between, hence the dip in the curve.) Three mappers worked on the task:

  • b-unicycling with 754 tasks
  • DIrish with 3 tasks and
  • TXPEig with 3 tasks

Results in numbers

building typeNo. Jan 24th 2024No. Feb 24th 2024
*28.4K55.6K
yes9.7K14K
house12.1K22.9K
semidetached_house1341.2K
terrace11962
detached275980
residential28540
farm1555
farm_auxiliary3K10.5K
shed147661
garage1.7K3.4K
greenhouse82226
barn56
commercial3582
retail52242
church3954
school10776*
public3518**
hangar67
ruins126448
* Some polygon relations were created instead of having several small buildings in one school ground with building=school.
** Someone had mapped quite a few houses as building=public.

Other things added to the map

tagNo. Jan 24th 2024No. Feb 24th 2024
historic=*673977
megalith_type=menhir*081
megalith_type=stone_circle214
megalith_type=stone_row010
waterway=stream290km343km
highway4,566km4,993km
parking_space=disabled989
highway=street_lamp87145
highway=crossing240277
highway=stop210290
traffic_calming=table925
bridge=yes357375
ford=yes614
Noteworthy for this task, because there were so many!

Thanks to DIrish and TXPeig for helping and happy validating!


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