Quick recap from this month’s OSM Ireland Map&Chat.

Attendance: 4-5 contributors

Topics

• Sledding hills in Toronto
• Poor law boundaries in Munster (see http://www.dublinhistoricmaps.ie/boundaries/munster/)
• New building projects open on https://tasks.openstreetmap.ie/
• Heritage trees in Ireland

Heritage trees in Ireland

Interesting to learn that the Tree Council of Ireland have a registry of trees and a number of trees have been classified as Heritage Trees. See https://data.gov.ie/dataset/heritage-trees-of-ireland

Brian H. wanted to know how to map these and it turns out there were no entries for heritage= so we fixed that by adding an entry for the Tree Council of Ireland. \o/

New building projects open on https://tasks.openstreetmap.ie/

The existing set of projects were mostly complete so Heikki mentioned that some new projects had been opened up. I started working on Leitrim since I know parts of the county quite well (lived in the neighbouring county of Sligo for a few years). Managed to get some easy tasks completed equating to 2% of the work. :)

Sledding hills in Toronto

Rob had a query about how to map a mound in Toronto he had seen. We concluded that man_made=mound was probably acceptable (some existing usage) but it turned out to be a sledding hill!! While there is no definitive tagging for these, we concluded that the tagging documented for Piste Maps is probably the best fit.