News - Ordnance Survey Ireland

Tailte Éireann update – 22nd Nov. 2022

We are informing our customers and stakeholders about the establishment of Tailte Éireann, a new State entity, which will bring together land and property information services in the State, including registration, valuation, and surveying services. This new organisation merges the Property Registration Authority (PRA), the Valuation Office (VO) and Ordnance Survey Ireland (OSI).

The creation of Tailte Éireann brings renewed focus to the work of our respective organisations and offers new opportunities for service enhancement.

You can find further information on the creation of Tailte Éireann and updates on the merger progression at www.tailte.ie. The draft legislation providing for this new body, the Tailte Éireann Bill 2022, was published on the 6 of September 2002 and was introduced in the Oireachtas. You can view the progress of the Bill at https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/bills/bill/2022/82/

Our key message is that business will continue as usual during the merger. How our stakeholders contact and access the products and services of the PRA, VO and OSI remains the same in the interim period to the establishment of Tailte Éireann. Therefore, there is no action required from our stakeholders at this time.

Liz Pope, CEO of the Property Registration Authority, has been appointed as transition lead for Tailte Éireann. Liz is looking forward to working with all stakeholders to prepare for a successful establishment.

Our merger will bring about positive change in providing land and property information, registration and valuation services. We look forward to providing new and enhanced services to meet the needs of all our stakeholders. As the merger progresses, we will provide further updates to ensure that Tailte Éireann delivers its services effectively and efficiently for all our customers and stakeholders.

Tailte Éireann update – 7th Sept. 2022

Ordnance Survey Ireland welcomes the publication of the Tailte Éireann Bill 2022, providing for the establishment of Tailte Éireann.

It marks the beginning of an exciting new chapter for the Property Registration Authority, the Valuation Office and Ordnance Survey Ireland.

The creation of Tailte Éireann will bring together land and property information services in the State, including registration, valuation and surveying. It will highlight the work we are doing and offer new opportunities to enhance the services we provide.

Preparation for the merger will continue in earnest and we will regularly inform all our customers and stakeholders of our progress. Business will continue as usual during the merger process.

The creation of Tailte Éireann will provide access to innovative, customer-focused, and unified land and property information services in Ireland and will build on the successes of the three merging entities.

We look forward to continuing to serve the public and commercial sectors and providing quality service delivery into the future professionally and responsively under Tailte Éireann.

Minister of State O’Donovan launches the Public Service Data Strategy 2019-2023

Minister of State with special responsibility for Public Procurement, Open Government and eGovernment, Patrick O’Donovan T.D., today (Wednesday), formally launched the Public Service Data Strategy 2019-2023.

The Public Service in Ireland, as in any country, has to collect, store and manage large amounts of data, including personal data in order to deliver services and develop policies. The Government is committed to doing so in a safe, secure and transparent manner that best meets the needs of society, and this whole-of-Government strategy sets out the means to do this.

Read more about the Public Service Data Strategy 2019 – 2023

OSi Wins ESRI Special Achievement in GIS Award

We are delighted to announce that OSi has won an ESRI Special Achievement in GIS Award at an award ceremony in San Diego last week.

The GeoHive project was delivered by a combined OSi and Esri Ireland team. The OSi team was led by Lorraine McNerney (General Manager for Geospatial Systems), with the project delivery itself managed by Éamonn Clinton (Geospatial Services Manager). Stakeholder requirements were managed by Hugh Mangan (General Manager Business and Marketing). The Esri Ireland team consisted of Michael Byrne as account executive, Marie Hogan as customer success manager, Eamonn Doyle as Chief Technology Officer, and Andrew Cullen as solution architect.

OSi is supporting the xGov Hack Eircode Event on 10^th February

OSi is the National Mapping Agency of Ireland. It creates and maintains a standardised, authoritative digital topographical framework that enables the consistent referencing and integration of national data related to location.

United Nations General Assembly adopts draft resolution (E/2016/L.28)

‘Strengthening institutional arrangements on geospatial information management’.

Colin Bray, Ordnance Survey Ireland Chief Executive Officer, again represented Ireland as head of delegation at the 6^th meeting of the United Nations Committee of Experts on Global Geospatial Information Management (UN-GGIM) in New York, 3^rd-5^th August 2016. Colin also represents Ireland on the UN-GGIM Regional Committee UN-GGIM: Europe.

Colin Bray, CEO Ordnance Survey Ireland launched the Geographic Information Research & Development Initiative in NUI Maynooth on Tuesday 22nd March 2016

What is the OSi Research Bursary Programme?

The OSi Research Bursary Programme is a significant development in the field of geospatial information research in Ireland. OSi will provide significant funding to support research and innovation in areas of interest to OSi and the broader geospatial information industry.

Ordnance Survey Ireland were delighted to support this year’s Geoweek competition

For this year’s Geoweek competition people were asked to make a map of their community. The map could be at any scale and they defined ‘community’ was up to them to decide. It could even be a fantasy map, a treasure map and demonstrate any kind of information.
Maps had to have a title and short explanation of the map including a description of the community.

CEO of Ordnance Survey Ireland, Colin Bray, Joins Panel Discussion at Launch of the Expanded €50 Million ADAPT Centre for Digital Content Technology

Dublin, 13^th January 2016: Minister for Skills, Research and Innovation, Damien English TD today announced a €50 million expansion of the ADAPT Centre for Digital Content Technology. The event featured a panel discussion titled ‘Digital Age: The Changing World of Content Delivery’ made up of ADAPT collaborators brought together to discuss the critical challenges experienced by industry with digital content.

ADAPT Collaborates with Ordnance Survey Ireland to Record Ireland’s Geospatial Information as Linked Data on the Web

The ADAPT Centre for Digital Content Technology and the Ordnance Survey Ireland (OSi) recently signed an agreement to collaborate on a project to serve Ireland’s geospatial information as Linked Data on the Web. The project aims to facilitate easier access to OSi data sets for third parties allowing for more meaningful interactions with the data.

OSi has launched a new web portal called GeoHive

GeoHive provides free, web-based access to Ordnance Survey Ireland (OSi), and other authoritative geo-spatial datasets. Users can link information from different authoritative sources all on one map to provide a deeper understanding of topics that impact on our lives, offering different perspectives on location-based issues.

MapViewer Changeover

The MapViewer has proven to be a very popular, free to access resource for both professional and public users.

From Wednesday 4th November the OSi MapViewer will change.

New mapping agreement to benefit United Kingdom and Ireland location data users

A new three party agreement between Ordnance Survey (GB), Ordnance Survey Ireland (OSi) and Land and Property Services (LPS) Northern Ireland is set to improve access and availability of mapping services for customers and government users operating across the UK and Ireland.

e-Day – 19th September 2014

The National Payments Plan (‘NPP’), launched in April 2013, seeks to reduce the cost of Ireland’s payment system. Under the NPP, which is to be administered by the Central Bank on behalf of the Government, it is anticipated that significant savings can be realised by eliminating the use of cheque payments.