{"id":468,"date":"2022-02-04T14:11:49","date_gmt":"2022-02-04T14:11:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/westmeathculture.ie\/?page_id=468"},"modified":"2022-02-04T14:11:52","modified_gmt":"2022-02-04T14:11:52","slug":"maps","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/westmeathculture.ie\/library\/local-history-and-archives\/local-studies\/maps\/","title":{"rendered":"Maps"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/scanmail.trustwave.com\/?c=6600&amp;d=t-DN2Jl5xBhPgRKTWv1-fsxdsc2jLZs84tQUrGsoNg&amp;s=352&amp;u=http%3a%2f%2fwww%2eopenstreetmap%2eorg%2f\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">OpenStreetMap.org<\/a>&nbsp;is a resource built by a community of volunteer mappers that contribute and maintain data about roads, trails, caf\u00e9s, railway stations, as well as historical and current Irish boundaries, historical geographic features and much more, &nbsp;all over the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For more background on the project please see <a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.openstreetmap.org\/wiki\/WikiProject_Ireland\">the OpenStreetMap Wiki<\/a>&nbsp;or the project Homepage at&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.openstreetmap.ie\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.openstreetmap.ie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Other projects include :<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.townlands.ie\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Irish townlands<\/a><br>Search Irish townlands by name, Civil Parish or County, over 60,800, many with Irish names &amp; direct link to census<\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/maps.openstreetmap.ie\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Irish boundary overlays<\/a><br>Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, EDs, City wards, some PLUs &amp; place names in Irish. (part of the OpenStreetMap project)<\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/maps.openstreetmap.ie\/oocmaps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Irish maps 1900 to 1940s<\/a><br>A selection of old maps of Ireland as overlays. use the + icon to switch between layers. (part of the OpenStreetMap project)<\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/histosm.org\/#3\/9\/49\/0\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">HistOSM.org<\/a><br>A world wide map with about 650,000 historical geographic features so far<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><a><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The&nbsp;OpenStreetMap.org&nbsp;is a resource built by a community of volunteer mappers that contribute and maintain data about roads, trails, caf\u00e9s, railway stations, as well as historical and current Irish boundaries, historical geographic features and much more, &nbsp;all over the world. For more background on the project please see the OpenStreetMap Wiki&nbsp;or the project Homepage at&nbsp;https:\/\/www.openstreetmap.ie\/ Other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":431,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Maps - Westmeath Culture<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/westmeathculture.ie\/library\/local-history-and-archives\/local-studies\/maps\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Maps - Westmeath Culture\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The&nbsp;OpenStreetMap.org&nbsp;is a resource built by a community of volunteer mappers that contribute and maintain data about roads, trails, caf\u00e9s, railway stations, as well as historical and current Irish boundaries, historical geographic features and much more, &nbsp;all over the world. 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