Hard to believe it’s 13 years since my first post. Anyway, I am no longer directly involved in the tourism industry but I have evolved from an occasional mapper to someone who makes regular edits on OSM and I am even on the OSM Ireland Telegram group.
All still using the online editor I confess - still have not made the jump to JOSM.
My interest is heritage mapping, primarily in the parish of Castlehaven and Myross as I am involved with the history group there.
We have our first Loginm Zoom meeting tonight and we have great plans to map Cuas(es?), Pools, rocks, fieldnames, hills etc
We are very lucky locally in that we have loads of minor toponyms still with their original Irish names. We believe we will capture and record up to 1,000 minor placenames within the parish over the course of the next few winters.
Anne you will be happy to hear I watched your video a few weeks ago and mapped my first mass rock. It’s a beautiful location and I only wish I could embed a picture on the map.

Thanks for all the helpful suggestions over the years.

Conor

Wow this is an amazing response,

FK270673 - thanks for the set up info and I really like your postman idea.

Andrew - regards what we would need mapped - anything that would help people visiting this beautiful part of Ireland so Hotels, B&Bs, restaurants, shops, churches, beaches, graveyards, ATM's, pubs, battle sites, castles, forts, waymarked ways, etc

rorym - I am amazed by the flexibility of the tagging system. Sometimes it's the little things that make a tourism experience. There is a mass rock in the woods near my house here in Castlehaven that almost nobody knows about. I have seen people moved to tears when I have shown it to them and told them some of the local stories. However, things like this will probably never show up in Yahoo/Google maps

LivingwithDragons - I like the idea of a mapping party or maybe a series of mapping parties. Keep an eye open for 2009!

Thanks for all your suggestions thus far and we would love to see you all in West Cork next year.

Conor Buckley
Chairman
West Cork Tourism
http://www.westcork.ie