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 10. The island of Ireland was historically divided into about 61,000 "townlands", a small geographical division of land of Gaelic origin. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Townland Mapping them has been a very long-running project inthe OpenStreetMap Ireland community https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Ireland/Mapping_Townlands 4 comments
12. Wrapping things up, you may be surprised to learn of New Ireland, a province of Papua New Guinea 🇵🇬 on the other side of the world from Ireland 🇮🇪. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Ireland_Province New Ireland was a correct answer in the April 2023 #fridaygeotrivia competition where we asked about states/provinces named after countries they are not part of: 13. That's it for our look at 🇮🇪 Ireland's #geoweirdness. Thanks for reading and boosting. What did we overlook? We have more threads about specific countries, border disputes, geocoding, etc on our blog. 14. Final bonus toot - Ireland 🇮🇪 of course has a rich musical tradition, and has gifted the world with some of the best songs about geocoding. We close with U2's "Where the Streets Have No Name" |
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11. Indeed, the OpenStreetMap community in Ireland 🇮🇪 is very active: https://www.openstreetmap.ie
They were one of the very first communities we interviewed in our blog series where we speak with OSM communities around the world:
https://blog.opencagedata.com/post/99554636383/country-profile-state-of-openstreetmap-in
Limerick was the site of the second ever State of the Map OSM conference, all the way back in 2008 https://2008.stateofthemap.org (our very own @freyfogle was one of the speakers)
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11. Indeed, the OpenStreetMap community in Ireland 🇮🇪 is very active: https://www.openstreetmap.ie
They were one of the very first communities we interviewed in our blog series where we speak with OSM communities around the world:
https://blog.opencagedata.com/post/99554636383/country-profile-state-of-openstreetmap-in