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Balbriggan Task Finished
The Balbriggan task was created by DeBigC in November 2020, but had been neglected and put into draft status for a while in favour of larger tasks. It was re-activated in May 2023, and the mapping was...
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Inaugural Meeting of Kilkenny History Mappers
As an initiative by Liamio2 and Anne (b-unicycling), the inaugural meeting of the Kilkenny History Mappers took place in the historical surroundings (difficult in Kilkenny not to have that) of...
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North Co. Clare Finished
Since we are depending on the very patchy distribution of new Bing aerial imagery, it was decided to only map the Northern part of Co. Clare in a task which was newly created. This consisted mostly of...
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New Bing Imagery for Co. Carlow, Co. Kildare, Co. Offaly (etc?)
As of late June 2023, possibly earlier, it was noticed that new Bing imagery was available for Co. Carlow at zoom levels 18 and higher. This is especially important, since Maxar Premium imagery seems...
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2nd Kilkenny History Mappers’ Meeting
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...
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Léarscáil na hÉireann
Overview OpenStreetMap Ireland identified a need for a map of Ireland showing place names in the Irish language (Gaeilge) and to encourage more Irish language additions to OpenStreetMap (OSM). Some...
View ArticleOpenStreetMap Ireland AGM 2023
OpenStreetMap Ireland Annual General Meeting. Date: Sat, November 4 · 14:30 Location: Gamma, 4 Inns Court, Winetavern Street, Dublin, D08 XY00 Online: Online participation may be supported (based on...
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Co. Meath finished
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...
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Bray Task Finished
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...
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Drogheda Task Finished
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...
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Buildings Project 2019-2023
The ambitious project to map all the buildings in Ireland started on November 30th 2019 in Kilkenny with the last in-person mapping event before Covid. Only we didn’t know that then. From a mapping...
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Fingal Task Finished
Contributors Building numbers Mapping saturation Observations Archaeology Thatched buildings The Fingal task (no. 20) was yet another task that had been begun in 2020, but had been de-activated in...
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Connemara Task – Validation Complete!
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.) usernameno....
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Co. Monaghan Task – Mapping Complete
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...
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Portlaoise Task – Mapping Complete
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...
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Task Between Macroom and Cork Finished
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...
View ArticleMapillary GoPro Max Grant arrives in Kilkenny
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...
View ArticleOpenStreetMap Ireland AGM 2024
OpenStreetMap Ireland Annual General Meeting. Date: Sat, September 21 · 11:00 Location: Gamma, 4 Inns Court, Winetavern Street, Dublin, D08 XY00 Online: Online participation may be supported (based on...
View ArticleMapping East Mayo
b-unicycling celebrates a 10 millionth edit and OpenStreetMap’s recent 20th anniversary by live stream mapping in East Mayo using the JOSM editor. You can join in with the task here:...
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Statistics on Finished East Mayo Task
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...
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