Presentation given to the foundation at their board meeting in Nov 2020

1. OpenStreetMap Ireland Chapter
Ciarán Staunton
a.k.a.
DeBigC

2. State Of The Map Limerick 2008

3. The map history
● First node in County Down, NI in 2006!
● After the first 8 months aside from
motorways and small parts of Dublin,
Belfast and Cork the map was still mainly
blank
● Some corners of the country remained
unmapped for several years, until the
community came up with a collective task,
that would touch every corner and
establish placenames

4. Townlands (x 60,000)

5. Leopold Bloom’s Puzzle solved

6. 2018 a company was registered
● Similar articles of association to international
OpenStreetMap Foundation
● Key goal to affiliate with OSMF as a Local
Chapter, and then grow the community, complete
the map
● Because both the Republic of Ireland and
Northern Ireland communities are small, and
mainly work together anyway – eg. Townlands -
the application was for an “Ireland” chapter with
consultation conducted with osmUK

8. The State of our Map Community – daily average
25 mappers

9. Meetups and Events 2019
Venue Date Focus
Belfast QUB Feb 16 Drones and GPS
Cork, UCC Mar 23 Beginner level mapping
Maynooth, NUIM May 4 Detect and fix errors
Dublin TOG Jun 15 Lightning talks and AGM
Galway, NUIG Aug 31 Making a mapping
community
Heidelberg Sept 21 SOTM Conference
Ballaghadereen Oct 5 Map Ballagahereen
Newry Nov 16 Map with Drone imagery
Kilkenny Nov 30 Map Kilkenny

10. Covid-19 compliant events in 2020
had to be socially distant and
outdoors

11. #osmIRL_buildings > tasks.openstreetmap.ie

12. Statutory and state funded re-use of OSM

13. Challenges for #osmIRL
● Branding: perceptions of unreliability and/or
incompleteness, though this is evolving
● OpenData: Irish Government Licence is currently CC BY 4.0
● Licence compliance: the low bar of simply attributing is still
too high for some
● Recruiting: high effort and low return
● Tasks: How long will our community task #osmIRL_buildings
take?
● Covid-19: our face to face meetings are not possible, and
we unsure about the efficacy of online meetings – which we
are doing

14. Talk to us:
@osm_ie and use #osmIRL
Facebook group “OpenStreetMap Ireland”
Mailing list: https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ie
www.openstreetmap.ie
and to help us map
tasks.openstreetmap.ie