OSM for History Buffs

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The main focus of this channel are tutorials about mapping heritage in Ireland using OpenStreetMap. I try to visit the places I map as much as possible, so y...

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15 Things to Map on a Hike using OSMAnd

A map of holy wells associated with female saints

Adding architectural data to a Wikidata item for a Historic Building

Creating a Wikidata item for a Historic Building

What is earth mortar and how can I record it using open data

Mapping Eleventh Night Bonfires Sites on OpenStreetMap

Mapping quarries on OpenStreetMap

Creating an interactive Down Survey map for County Kilkenny on uMap 4909

Recording mounting blocks on OpenStreetMap

Knockroe Passage Tomb Sunrise 2025-12-19

Making Down Survey names easier to find

St Nicholas's Killamery 6th December 2025

Extracting data from OpenStreetMap

Recognising and mapping coffin rests

Using historic Ordnance Survey maps for research #OpenData #NLS

Binding stones and blacksmiths in folklore

Building a chamfer stop database on uMap

Inistioge Cloister Reconstruction

Holy wells and OpenData - a talk about Wikidata et al.

From gravestone to 3D model - photogrammetry and heritage

St Moling's Well Listerlin

Rathlogan Tobar na súl

Kiltrassy Church Well

Debunking folklore around the Three Friars

Fixing townland spellings on townlands.ie

Linking townlands on OpenStreetMap with logainm

Kilkieran Saint Kieran's Well

Tobernamoninne in Glencommaun, Co. Kilkenny

Panoramax Street-level imagery

Uploading oral history to Wikimedia