If anyone is following my mapping work, they’ll know that I started a tutorial series on YouTube about a year ago, in which I focus on heritage mapping, because that’s what interests me most (even if I map way more ordinary buildings during our #osmIRL_buildings campaign than I map heritage). Between Christmas and the New Year 2022, I had been wrecking my brain about what else to do tutorials about, because I thought that I had covered most things. Then I came across a Heritage Trail in County Tipperary - the Derrynaflan Trail* - and decided to take that as an example for a new tutorial series. So, I will walk along the trail described here and focus on different mapping aspects. This will give me the opportunity to talk about tags that are not necessarily heritage related, but useful for people along the trail, i.e. amenities like car parks, public toilets, EV charging points, accommodation, restaurants etc.

Luckily, the trail is only about an hour’s drive away, so even though I happen to have visited quite a few of the sites already, I might go there again for some image material and micro mapping quests. I’m also hoping to add some more photographs to WikiCommons, because this part of the country is rarely visited by foreign tourists who happen to be contributing more than the locals to WikiCommons, unfortunately.

In the first episode, I created a multipolygon relation for the trail and added the first building to it.

*The Derrynaflan Trail is named after a church site where a very famous early Christian hoard was found which is now housed in the National Museum in Dublin (I might do an episode visiting it).

Please feel free to watch along and contribute with ideas about what else to focus on in future episodes!