Thanks for commenting. I’ve recorded a video on how I added two more and some literary background, but I’m only chancing it, as usual. ;-) Video will go online on April 23rd.

Thanks for your informed comments. It must make it difficult for the census people (and for us).

I agree with not mapping scattered houses as one landuse=residential (to show it is one village? or why?), especially when it goes over landuse=farmland (which might not be mapped)

I’m not sure if public lawns (landuse=grass) should be excluded from the residential area, in a way, they are an important amenity of the residential area, but nobody is technically living on them (unless a homeless person puts a tent up).

All in all, I think we could do better. ;-)

I know what you mean, but this is how it is phrased on their websites and the actual opening hour signs. It’s meant to be inclusive rather than exclusive, so I hope it is okay. The conversation on the tagging mailing list was started, but didn’t get much response. Which is a good thing, in my opinion. Less work for me.

Kind regards

@Stereo, thanks for that, it was displayed fine for me, might depend on the browser or who knows.

Hi Sam,

thanks for your comment. I was trying to link to the database directly rather than the map. And you’re probably right about wikidata, I’ll put it on my todo-list.

The second episode is about the church in Killenaule and the connecting OSM with Wikipedia/ wikidata. Also some thinking out loud about mapping church windows and their creators.

Having visited West Cork on public transport recently, that’s another feature which could be useful - adding the local bus routes. You have to take the bus and track the routes and bus stops (talk to driver to find out where the official ones are, bc there are rarely signposted). They will show up on the two public transport layers at osm.org.

And you’ll be happy to learn that there is a tag for mass rocks. I’ve done a video about how to map them: https://youtu.be/DcWBZSwsCJQ. likewise for mass paths.

Feel free to contact me if there are any more questions.

Anne

Very interesting, thanks for all the effort!

Hurray for COVID. ;-)

Thanks for the statistics.

It’d be interesting to see how the lockdown affected the SCing.

ad holy wells: Your photograph brings up the topic of raggedy bushes. I think they should be mapped too, to be honest.

ad sheela-na-gigs: I have mapped two (1 and 2) now using your suggestion for sculpture_type, but I’m not sure if it should not be sculpture_subject instead. I remember visiting another one, I just have to find a reference.

ad Ringforts: I would hope that the tagging is consistent, as the tag is quite clear and established.

ad Dolmens: I think they are not limited to Ireland, but I would suspect not much attention has gone into mapping them in Ireland. I could be wrong.

ad Holy Wells: I’m not aware of a tag, adding the name would help to identify them as such. The British War Office map has some of the names, I think.

ad Celtic Crosses: I agree that they are not the same as wayside crosses, however, tagging should make their historical period clear, because they are still used as grave markers. Shouldn’t say “still”, because that’s not what they were in the Middle Ages.

ad Round Towers: I agree as well that they should have their own sub-category and that man_made=tower is often not satisfactory. However, I’m not sure if there is a consensus about their use as bell tower. Is there not also a school of thought that they were used as watchtowers to see the Vikings coming? They could of course have had a dual function.

ad sheela na gigs: Also not limited to Ireland which I only found out yesterday. We will still have to do a proposal for it, I presume. Including “moved”=*, because a lot of them were. There’s a guy 3D scanning all of the ones he can access.

ad Passage Graves: Yes, historic=monument is the lazy way of tagging them. On a similar note, I think we need historic=burial_site which could apply to cillíns as well, because they are neither graveyards nor cemeteries imho. Maybe passage graves and cillíns could be a subcategory of that.

Very interesting article, thank you. However, what it does not address (see what I did there?) is terraces (as far as I’m aware that mostly applies to the UK and Ireland, where a row of houses looks to be on one street, but actually has its own “addr:street”. Also, does StreetComplete not ask “What street is this house on?” or “What street does this building belong to?”

The second issue is tagging every residential building as house, when there could be a shop in the ground floor or even some business on an upstairs level. I usually tag those as “building=commercial;residential”, but I’m not sure if that is correct. It would be quite a bit of work to go back after adding the house numbers and changing the building type back from house to whatever it really is.

But thanks for taking the time to write this up. I’m sure it will be an inspiration for many!

Thanks for sharing your experience. Prepare for your mind to be blown with JOSM and the use of a mouse. You’ll be in the top 20 of mappers in Ireland in no time. :D

There is more to OSM than buildings, but thanks for your contributions in the past! Take care!

That’s interesting, Sanderd17. The Irish mile differs from the statute mile as well. Is there any other place closer than Ypres? Maybe it’s a mile to Dikkebus?

In Ireland, there are many places like Ninemilehouse, Twomileborris, but they have something to do with the coach services with horse-drawn coaches, I believe. As far as I know, they were the stops. I haven’t looked into it enough, but I should.

Thanks, I will keep that in mind and try to correct my edits.

Thanks, alexkemp, I’m not the only one doing it, though. And it can give clues to the history, I agree, if the land has been in the family for a while. As long as we make sure to put it in the notes. :-)

Hi SK53,

that is a very good idea about the voice recording, especially when people are doing it who are no natives speakers of Irish (not that I think there are native speakers of any language, because you are usually not able to speak when you are born, but that’s another matter). I will keep it in mind for the future. Is there a way to save these recording snippets in OSM, so Gaelgeoirí could transcribe them?