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)
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:
https://blog.opencagedata.com/post/geotrivia-april-2023
#geoweirdness