[OSM-talk-ie] Did you add Electoral Divisions or DEDs to OSM?

2020-11-05 Thread Brian Hollinshead
If you did, can you please remember what date applied and what sources were used? It was recently remarked that some of the Dublin ones were only dated 1901. As I added quite a few of them using the 1901 census index because I knew no better, I am curious as to what was used across the country.

Re: [OSM-talk-ie] Townlands.ie project

2020-11-02 Thread Brian Hollinshead
Hi Colm, Seeing your list of Dublin Eds dated 1901, reminded me that I had most likely added the bulk of the Dublin Eds and had used the 1901 census index. Overpass shows 15 dated 1901. I suspect all that I added were 1901 even if not so tagged. To have the Dublin EDs conform to the rest of the

Re: [OSM-talk-ie] Townlands.ie project

2020-11-01 Thread Brian Hollinshead
Hi Colm, I will look at the three Dublin City ones tomorrow. On Sun, 1 Nov 2020 at 21:00, Colm Moore wrote: > Hi, > > While this project is substantially complete, a few things arise. None of > my comments below are criticism of any of the people who have contributed. > > Some administrative

[OSM-talk-ie] Area/perimeter of Dublin City 1780 to 1985

2020-10-29 Thread Brian Hollinshead
Some time ago I tried to establish the areas/perimeters for nine versions of Dublin City from 1780 to 1985.Have recently found some results but am unsure if they are acres/hectares/sq kms and for the perimeters. etc. I list them below and would ask if one of you could please solve this for me and

Re: [OSM-talk-ie] Some of the 3300 parks in OSM Ireland are just patches of grass.

2020-10-18 Thread Brian Hollinshead
I understood that adding to the amount of land area that was classified with a landuse category was a good addition to the map. My research showed that we have some 3,300 patches of land mapped but excluded from the landuse tag. For private citizens or public officials seeking data from OSM for

[OSM-talk-ie] Some of the 3300 parks in OSM Ireland are just patches of grass.

2020-10-18 Thread Brian Hollinshead
As part of my researches into what features we have on OSM that might interest someone wishing to make use of outdoor facilities, I find on the Island of Ireland we have close to 3,300 parks to choose from, wow! (leisure=park). On closer inspection I find that many of these in South Dublin at

[OSM-talk-ie] Poor Law Unions and Electoral Divisions (EDs or DEDs)

2020-09-22 Thread Brian Hollinshead
Poor Law Unions and Electoral Divisions (EDs or DEDs) v Townlands and Civil Parishes While the coverage for Townlands and Civil parishes is splendidly almost nationwide, Sadly the same is not the case for Poor law Unions (PLUs) and EDs. I have added several dozen PLUs in recent months, mostly up

Re: [OSM-talk-ie] some of my inconsistent tagging - cure sought

2020-09-20 Thread Brian Hollinshead
I apologise for causing so much discussion. When I contemplated using an auto edit to change some 686 cases of mistaken tagging from anglican=Church Of Ireland to anglican=Church of Ireland. On reading from the links Mateusz sent I see that even for acceptable usage the following applies Quote

Re: [OSM-talk-ie] some of my inconsistent tagging - cure sought

2020-09-19 Thread Brian Hollinshead
Thank you, Mateusz, for the details of the guidelines and the rules regarding acceptable usage when using auto edits. I fully understand the needs for these but as so much is involved including the creation and maintenance of a new wiki page, which is quite outside my experience, I have decided to

Re: [OSM-talk-ie] some of my inconsistent tagging - cure sought

2020-09-18 Thread Brian Hollinshead
(._;>;); >out meta; > >6. Download your data. >7. Select all your data (Ctrl+A). >8. Find the key that you care about (e.g. "anglican") and then right >click. >9. Select "Search key/value". >10. This gave me 612 objects. >

[OSM-talk-ie] some of my inconsistent tagging - cure sought

2020-09-18 Thread Brian Hollinshead
During the lockdown I added a lot of Roman Catholic and Church of Ireland Parishes to OSM. I carelessly described 686 of them as anglican=Church Of Ireland instead of anglican=Church of Ireland. You can see them in overpass using type=boundary and anglican="Church Of Ireland". Is there some way

Re: [OSM-talk-ie] Townlands in Monaghan

2020-09-14 Thread Brian Hollinshead
Hi Colm, Please sent link to page you refer to. Thanks On Mon, 14 Sep 2020 at 13:13, Colm Moore wrote: > Hi, > > Aren't the Wikipedia Category pages auto-generated? If a page doesn't > exist for the barony, it won't be listed. > > Notably Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown and South Dublin appear to be

Re: [OSM-talk-ie] Tagging of LEAs that changed in 2019

2020-09-13 Thread Brian Hollinshead
As mapper of these and nearby parts I find that Colm Donoghues question raises more issues than the one he lists. My prime source for the townlands was the GSGS3906 overlay in JOSM and at the time I had access to the 1901 Census index of townlands. The Boundary commission map. I notice that

[OSM-talk-ie] Tagging of LEAs that changed in 2019

2020-09-11 Thread Brian Hollinshead
Under Si 615 of 2018 many of the LEAs in Dublin were altered. After creating the new ones, I added historic=yes and end dates to the ones that were changed and left boundary=political as the category. see openstreetmap.org/relation/4655804. Please is this the preferred method at large, and if not

Re: [OSM-talk-ie] Heritage Week 2020

2020-08-07 Thread Brian Hollinshead
I get 404 page not found if I use the linK? On Fri, 7 Aug 2020 at 13:59, Tadeusz Cantwell wrote: > As part of Heritage Week 2020, we plan to join mappers and local history > enthusiasts to enhance the neglected midlands. > > https://www.openstreetmap.ie/putting-clonmels-history-on-the-map/t >

[OSM-talk-ie] Munster boundaries

2020-07-19 Thread Brian Hollinshead
Apologies, had forgotten to upload new page. Munster now on line. ___ Talk-ie mailing list Talk-ie@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ie

[OSM-talk-ie] New Munster Boundaries page, thanks for your help

2020-07-19 Thread Brian Hollinshead
Using 400Mb of OSM data, some 4.8m lines of text, I have added a new Munster Boundaries page to dublinhistoricmaps.ie. albeit incomplete as yet. Huge thanks to the dozens of you who contributed this data to OSM, particularly the initial townlands and civil parishes. A nice addition is the filter

Re: [OSM-talk-ie] Overpass query?

2020-04-28 Thread Brian Hollinshead
gt; > I attempt to gather all CPs in Cork. > Then all CPs in the mapped dioceses. > Then take the difference. > > But I just query by area name - this could be tightened further. > > Rgds/ > - John > > > > > On Tue, 28 Apr 2020 at 09:20, Brian Hollinshea

Re: [OSM-talk-ie] Overpass query?

2020-04-28 Thread Brian Hollinshead
just noticed that Cork Airport and nearby are not highlighted in > the results...maybe the civil parish definitions are missing/broken in > those areas. > Rgds/ > - John. > > On Tue, 28 Apr 2020 at 12:52, Brian Hollinshead > wrote: > > > Hi John, > > That is great t

Re: [OSM-talk-ie] Overpass query?

2020-04-28 Thread Brian Hollinshead
s work? > > https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/TnN > > I attempt to gather all CPs in Cork. > Then all CPs in the mapped dioceses. > Then take the difference. > > But I just query by area name - this could be tightened further. > > Rgds/ > - John > > > >

[OSM-talk-ie] Why is Billy parish in Antrim shown as in Athlone Municipal District?

2020-04-28 Thread Brian Hollinshead
During the stay at home I have added many CofI parishes to OSM based on single or combinations of civil parishes. Please see Billy Parish 10993573, it suggests it is in County Roscommon!! This applies to a number of others as well. Please can somebody explain why to me and also how or who can

Re: [OSM-talk-ie] Overpass query?

2020-04-28 Thread Brian Hollinshead
t; > Hopefully one of the overpass gurus here will put us out of our misery!! =) > > Donal > > On Sat, Apr 25, 2020 at 4:38 PM Brian Hollinshead > wrote: > > > Overpass query: County Cork comprises the Dioceses of Cloyne, Cork and > > Ross. I have added Cloyne and R

[OSM-talk-ie] Overpass query?

2020-04-25 Thread Brian Hollinshead
Overpass query: County Cork comprises the Dioceses of Cloyne, Cork and Ross. I have added Cloyne and Ross as boundary=historic_diocese to OSM. Please can I use overpass to load the remaining civil parishes into JOSM. Something like boundary=civil_parish in "County Cork" BUT NOT

[OSM-talk-ie] Which source(s) used for OSM civil parishes please.

2020-02-15 Thread Brian Hollinshead
During a recent talk to some genealogists I was asked which sources we used for adding the civil parishes back in the day. My best memory was grouping the townlands from detail on the Sean Ruad web (now the core roscommon I think) which is a list from the 1851 index? Thanks

[OSM-talk-ie] Introduction for new Irish OSM map viewers

2020-02-01 Thread Brian Hollinshead
I did a talk recently to staff in the RCB Library and Arcive and yesterday to staff of Eneclann and the family history Centre. I find I am being repeatedly asked how a new Irish user of OSM learn how best to use it and how to know what search and other features are included. With this in mind I

Re: [OSM-talk-ie] Using overpass-turbo.eu to count features

2019-11-07 Thread Brian Hollinshead
r example, using approach 3 on the query for Munster, the data is reduced > from ~100Mb to <1 Mb, which is significant if you don't need to actually > see the geometries of the queried items. > > Hope this helps, > Mark > > On Wed, Nov 6, 2019 at 6:13 PM Brian Hollinshead

[OSM-talk-ie] Using overpass-turbo.eu to count features

2019-11-06 Thread Brian Hollinshead
I often use this to count features, say locality=townland in Louth. Works fine but I tried it for Munster and 100mB was rather too much to display. I removed the last three lines to avoid a display but then it does not count. Perhaps one of you has a way around this please? I am also looking

[OSM-talk-ie] Overpass wizard

2019-09-27 Thread Brian Hollinshead
I know how to search for a way number on the main openstreetmap.org page by using openstreetmap.org/way/165511786. I want please using overpass-turbo.eu export a file for building=church and (the same way) but using way=165511786 or way/165511786 does not work. Your suggestions please.

[OSM-talk-ie] Failte Ireland map using OSM

2019-08-15 Thread Brian Hollinshead
Please to see recently that the Failte Ireland Sligo and Mayo visitor map both used OSM data and attributed it to OSM. Also saw the European Commission website PHOTOVOLTAIC GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM: https://re.jrc.ec.europa.eu/pvg_tools/en/tools.html appears to use OSM but I did not see

[OSM-talk-ie] Disabled parking spaces

2019-07-02 Thread Brian Hollinshead
Following the discussion at the AGM meeting about open source data and disabled parking spaces. I got an opensource (now out of date) list from Dun Laoghaire Rathdown. I have in the course of various local journeys, made a point to visit the spaces prior to adding them to the map. Together, you

Re: [OSM-talk-ie] AGM Notice

2019-06-10 Thread Brian Hollinshead
longer is great. > > Thanks! > > See you Saturday. > > On Mon, Jun 10, 2019 at 2:17 PM Brian Hollinshead > wrote: > > > Heikki > > I will rsvp. I offered Tad I would do a lightning talk on printing large > > and small paper maps from OSM. > > See you

Re: [OSM-talk-ie] AGM Notice

2019-06-10 Thread Brian Hollinshead
Heikki I will rsvp. I offered Tad I would do a lightning talk on printing large and small paper maps from OSM. See you on Saturday On Mon, 10 Jun 2019 at 12:40, Heikki Vesanto wrote: > We are holding our OpenStreetMap Ireland Company Limited by Guarantee AGM > this weekend. > > Saturday June

Re: [OSM-talk-ie] New Local Electoral Areas 2018

2019-03-09 Thread Brian Hollinshead
I have finished the Dublin Counties. They can be viewed at overpass-turbo.eu/s/GNq or by entering political_division=local_const and existed=2014- or existed=2019- in "County Dublin"into the wizard. Alternatively at u.osmfr.org/m/299562 For anyone not familiar with umap, You can drag the

[OSM-talk-ie] New Local Electoral Areas 2018

2019-02-11 Thread Brian Hollinshead
It is four years since the last change in LEAs. Last Summer a boundary commission issued new proposals and in December new Statutory Instruments were issued. I learnt today of the references for the four Dublin areas. SI 614 2018 Dublin City SI 615 2018 DLR SI 616 2018 Fingal SI 633 2018 South

Re: [OSM-talk-ie] OSM IRL meeting in Dublin

2018-11-26 Thread Brian Hollinshead
Yes, if you would like to. I was hoping to make someone sorry they had not come this time and that they might try harder next time. On Mon, 26 Nov 2018 at 12:46, Dave Corley wrote: > Fantastic write up Brian. Can this be added as a post on the site? > > On Sat 24 Nov 2018, 16

[OSM-talk-ie] OSM IRL meeting in Dublin

2018-11-24 Thread Brian Hollinshead
Just back from the meeting, some interesting and useful discussion as usual. Ciaran did a presentation on the simplicity of Mapmillary. This was followed later on by a quick walk around the locality by four teams on foot. Then uploading the resulting images on our return. Ciaran talked about

[OSM-talk-ie] Tagging Irish boundaries and the OSM meeting on Saturday.

2018-11-18 Thread Brian Hollinshead
Thanks to Donal we have some splendid presets in JOSM. I am interested in adding new types of boundaries, some for OSM and some perhaps better suited to histosm.org. All can be used with umap or leafet or maperitive. In most cases the line features of townlands, streets, canals etc are already

Re: [OSM-talk-ie] Collinstown Townland has been re mapped as Dublin Airport!

2018-11-17 Thread Brian Hollinshead
her > > they could be rolled back to their pre-"redrawing" stage. > > > > On Mon, Oct 22, 2018 at 5:50 PM Brian Hollinshead > > > wrote: > > > >> Thanks Paddy, > >> I found Belgard Quarry this morning. At least in that case they left the > &g

Re: [OSM-talk-ie] OpenStreetMap Ireland CLG launch yesterday

2018-10-22 Thread Brian Hollinshead
We can also add Carlow and Galway County Councils, Geological Survey Ireland. Bus Eireann, Please what is the correct format of the Company name and does it have a number yet? On Mon, 22 Oct 2018 at 13:31, Colm Moore wrote: > Ciarán & board, > > Well done on setting things up! > > One thing we

Re: [OSM-talk-ie] Collinstown Townland has been re mapped as Dublin Airport!

2018-10-22 Thread Brian Hollinshead
her > places where this has gone on but that was the one that I noticed. > > Paddy Matthews. > > On Sun, Oct 21, 2018 at 12:29 PM Brian Hollinshead > wrote: > > > While adding the Malahide Union of parishes to the map which uses a > > combination of the old ci

[OSM-talk-ie] Collinstown Townland has been re mapped as Dublin Airport!

2018-10-21 Thread Brian Hollinshead
While adding the Malahide Union of parishes to the map which uses a combination of the old civil parish boundaries I find that Collinstown townland (relation/5436241) has been seriously redrawn if compared to the GSGS 3906 map and maps.openstreetmap.ie. Rorys townlands.ie shows the post changes

[OSM-talk-ie] OSM base map listing OSI GeoJson townlands

2018-10-02 Thread Brian Hollinshead
Interested to see OSM basemap used here https://data.gov.ie/dataset/townland-boundaries-ungeneralised-osi-national-statutory-boundaries/resource/4af9ff67-4028-4a31-904a-b57085137c6f?view_id=6062c905-2115-4619-a109-3c20607b97c9 ___ Talk-ie mailing list

Re: [OSM-talk-ie] Raths / ringforts

2018-09-06 Thread Brian Hollinshead
Some time ago I had discussion the Archaeological survey Ireland concerning our possible use of their open data. At that time their cc-by ? was not quite enough open for OSM use as there were two sticking points. Dacor has ironed these out in the meantime and kindly made sample acceptances

[OSM-talk-ie] Townland boundaries pulled to match ground features

2018-09-01 Thread Brian Hollinshead
The boundary between Kilmashogue and Taylors Grange has been pulled out of position to suit the Marlay Park golf course. Please see ways openstreetmaps.org/way/563594212 and 213 Similarly openstreetmap.org/way/325217162 has been grossly pulled to fit ground features. These differences can be

Re: [OSM-talk-ie] OSM IRL Annual General Meeting

2018-03-01 Thread Brian Hollinshead
Thanks for getting the advice Ciaran I agree hold the meeting first then form the company Delay the meeting until March 24th. I look forward to it. On Wed 28 Feb 2018 at 21:18, Ciarán Staunton wrote: > Hi All > I am sorry if this is a longer than usual message and I

[OSM-talk-ie] Maps.openstreetmap.ie Pink tiles

2018-02-01 Thread Brian Hollinshead
Has anyone found if they select the counties layer, all the tiles go pink. This is on several, if not all, zoom levels. Also the overlay for Poor Law Unions only shows five in Dublin area while overpass can find 26 in all Ireland including one in Kerry. (boundary=poor_law_union in Ireland) All

[OSM-talk-ie] Conversion from QGIS project to Geojson and to .shp files

2018-01-10 Thread Brian Hollinshead
I have used the Georeferencer plugin in QGIS to reference the four sheets of John Rocque's map of Dublin City and Environs of 1750s. I have four separate projects. I have permission to add these to hollinshead (dot) net/maps/dublinhistoric and to an OSM.ie page if thought desirable. Please I need

Re: [OSM-talk-ie] Reduction of size by area of exported OSM or GeoJson image

2017-10-28 Thread Brian Hollinshead
file name Select Browse to set destination and Save Select OK Job done. Thank you guys. On 18 October 2017 at 09:33, Brian Hollinshead <br...@hollinshead.net> wrote: > I am able to take an OSM or GeoJson file of County Carlow boundary and use > in leaflet or UMap. > I now wo

Re: [OSM-talk-ie] Saturday meeting.

2017-10-19 Thread Brian Hollinshead
Hi Dave I will be there as well. On 19 October 2017 at 17:38, Dave Corley wrote: > Hi all, > > Everything is still planned to go ahead, 10am to 4pm. > > Between Facebook, the site booking form and a few private messages, it's > looking like there will be about 20

[OSM-talk-ie] Reduction of size by area of exported OSM or GeoJson image

2017-10-18 Thread Brian Hollinshead
I am able to take an OSM or GeoJson file of County Carlow boundary and use in leaflet or UMap. I now would like a file for Carlow which is only 80% the area but the same shape to overlay to show the population decrease 1841 to 1851 and having the same lat/lon centre. I have QGIS but am not

Re: [OSM-talk-ie] OSM Ireland chapter - reboot

2017-09-16 Thread Brian Hollinshead
Hi Dave and others I am interested to attend as well On 14 August 2017 at 02:52, Dave Corley wrote: > Hi, > > First, I want to apologise, this is a long email, but if you are at all > interested in moving OSM in Ireland to the next level, please read on and > give your

[OSM-talk-ie] Go Map app on Apple iPad

2017-08-09 Thread Brian Hollinshead
Wonder if any of you have used the Go Map app. on an Apple iPad and if so, how good you found it please? Thanks ___ Talk-ie mailing list Talk-ie@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ie

Re: [OSM-talk-ie] Using greater than & less than values in Overpass-euro

2017-07-13 Thread Brian Hollinshead
Thanks for list Colm, fascinated to see it incudes a tag proprietor:misogynist = yes ! On 13 July 2017 at 14:21, Colm Moore wrote: > Hi, > > > Note that there is a list of populations (and almost every other tag, > except for a few like name=*) here:

[OSM-talk-ie] Using greater than & less than values in Overpass-euro

2017-07-13 Thread Brian Hollinshead
I have a query http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/qm4 which searches where population equals an exact figure which works fine. I would like to be able to select a range. [population >3999 and <5000] I have tried [population<5000] and [population<=5000] to no avail. Your help would be much appreciated

Re: [OSM-talk-ie] Public drinking fountains

2017-07-08 Thread Brian Hollinshead
This overpass link will find 35 in Leinster, I presume changing line 8 to Ireland will find all http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/qgo On 8 July 2017 at 12:47, Seán Lynch wrote: > Hi guys, > > I saw a discussion recently, I think in this chat, a map of multiple public >

Re: [OSM-talk-ie] NI Electoral Divisions and tagging schemes. A Suggestion.

2017-02-26 Thread Brian Hollinshead
visions and tagging schemes. A > Suggestion. > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 25/02/17 12:10, Brian Hollinshead wrote: > > Yes the white space for old Dublin City, on maps.openstreetmap.ie > > worries me gently from time to time. I wonder t

Re: [OSM-talk-ie] NI Electoral Divisions and tagging schemes. A Suggestion.

2017-02-25 Thread Brian Hollinshead
wnland boundaries, > I even found a missing townland in Dublin (Taylorsgrange). > > > Dave > > > ____ > From: Brian Hollinshead <br...@hollinshead.net> > Sent: 23 February 2017 05:07 > To: Discussion of OpenStreetMap in Ireland > Sub

Re: [OSM-talk-ie] Typos in Townland names

2017-02-17 Thread Brian Hollinshead
Re Exclave try Kiltiernan in County Dublin in townlands.ie and Kinnitty as CP, both enclaves belong to eslewhere external CPs On 17 February 2017 at 16:03, Rory McCann wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 17/02/17 16:38, Brian Tuffy wrote: > >

Re: [OSM-talk-ie] Can Townlands be split for Civil parishes and barony boundries?

2016-12-14 Thread Brian Hollinshead
Lugaphuill: The two townlands in separate Civil Parishes were combined into one by the Boundary Surveyor. A study of the valuation books this morning shows them as separate in 1856, 1883, 1914 and 1922 but combined in 1935. A closer inspection of the annotations in the books show the effective

Re: [OSM-talk-ie] Wanted OSM shapefile of Ireland and province outlines, otherwise blank

2016-12-07 Thread Brian Hollinshead
at 12:40, Marc Gemis <marc.ge...@gmail.com> wrote: > Is https://osm.wno-edv-service.de/boundaries/ of any help to you ? > > regards > > m > > On Tue, Dec 6, 2016 at 12:38 PM, Brian Hollinshead > <br...@hollinshead.net> wrote: > > The Genealogical Society o

[OSM-talk-ie] Out of copyright OS sheets of North Dublin on offer

2016-10-08 Thread Brian Hollinshead
Hi all OSM mappers I have on offer about 90 OS paper sheets mostly the 1936/37 revision. A mixture of 1:1250 but some are 1:2500. At present they include from Argillan in North Dublin south to a line from Howth to Clonee. Sheets 5 to 17 with some gaps. Prior to our having access to the GSGS

Re: [OSM-talk-ie] Talk-ie Digest, Vol 87, Issue 5

2016-08-14 Thread Brian Hollinshead
talk-ie-requ...@openstreetmap.org > > > > You can reach the person managing the list at > >talk-ie-ow...@openstreetmap.org > > > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > > than "Re: Contents of Talk-ie digest..." >

Re: [OSM-talk-ie] Lack of attribution to OSM by ESRI on Carlow maps

2016-08-10 Thread Brian Hollinshead
from that? He assure me they have themselves drawn it up from legislation and are keen to share it with us for us to include on our map. On 10 August 2016 at 08:41, Rory McCann <r...@technomancy.org> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 09/08/16 19:39,

[OSM-talk-ie] Lack of attribution to OSM by ESRI on Carlow maps

2016-08-09 Thread Brian Hollinshead
Prior to a visit to Carlow yesterday I perused the council web page for maps, see link below: http://carlow.maps.arcgis.com/apps/PublicGallery/index.html?appid= 463a5f06db5040e4863a8f2bc8f452fd=c94e864d25da4f4f8e7f5e68e3ebd47b Of about 15 maps all powered by ESRI They have correctly attributed

Re: [OSM-talk-ie] Lesotho Embassy is hosting a mapping event on Aug 13th

2016-08-04 Thread Brian Hollinshead
Hi Dave Yes please I would like to be there. On 5 August 2016 at 00:58, Dave Corley wrote: > Hey all, > > I wanted to let you know about an event that is happening on Aug 13th in > Dublin in the Lesotho Embassy [1]. > > The ambassador has kindly provided the facility for

[OSM-talk-ie] Cork OOC paper maps and scans

2016-06-12 Thread Brian Hollinshead
About 180 paper maps of Cork have been donated to us over the past year or so, perhaps 160 are out of copyright. Blueprint Reprographics of Stillorgan (phone 01-288 9398) kindly allowed me scan 76 of the 6 inch and other town areas for OSM use.​ Trinity College map library have gladly taken about

Re: [OSM-talk-ie] When is a townland a townland (and when is it 2+ townlands)?

2016-05-29 Thread Brian Hollinshead
Hi all I understand that each (part) Townland is in fact a separate townland/administrative area. I mapped Graiguealug first as one composite and on advice from a map librarian i was strongly encouraged to show it as three distinct townlands. The history shows I followed this advise in two

Re: [OSM-talk-ie] Talk-ie Digest, Vol 83, Issue 7

2016-05-20 Thread Brian Hollinshead
ggan Skerries Rush, Swords in Fingal are correct > > I'll find out where Donabate is > > Arklow library is south of the mark, > > There's a good bit else missing in Arklow, I'll tidy that up a bit too > > > > Kevin st, Phibsboro, Pearse st in Dublin are all good &g

Re: [OSM-talk-ie] Talk-ie Digest, Vol 83, Issue 11

2016-04-22 Thread Brian Hollinshead
than "Re: Contents of Talk-ie digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > >1. Re: Talk-ie Digest, Vol 83, Issue 10 (Brian Hollinshead) >2. Re: Talk-ie Digest, Vol 83, Issue 10 (Dave Corley) > > > -------

Re: [OSM-talk-ie] Talk-ie Digest, Vol 83, Issue 10

2016-04-18 Thread Brian Hollinshead
Daniel kindly asked for suggested topics for discussion on Saturday so here are some. 1) histosm.org or the history page with date slider. (It seems to vanish from time to time) I have been adding to OSM some historic admin boundaries dublin south union trinity ward (1849) rathmines township 1847

[OSM-talk-ie] Converting 350 lat/lons from ITM to decimal degrees (Irish Libraries)

2016-04-12 Thread Brian Hollinshead
I have received from the Library Development Section of the LMGA the ITM co-ordinates of about 350 Irish Public Libraries with permission to use the data for OSM. When I called to request the data they were unaware of OSM but are now highly impressed that such a sizable and varied resource had

Re: [OSM-talk-ie] Talk-ie Digest, Vol 82, Issue 2

2016-03-05 Thread Brian Hollinshead
> When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Talk-ie digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > >1. Overpass Turbo Query help please (Brian Hollinshead) >2. Re: Overpass Turbo Query help please (Brian O'Hare) > > >

[OSM-talk-ie] Overpass Turbo Query help please

2016-03-04 Thread Brian Hollinshead
I have made some paper maps of County Offaly with overlays using simple Overpass queries and Maperitive. I come unstuck in that I cannot get all highways or all boundaries. Hoping there is a query line that will take all of a category, something like highway=*, have read the wiki to no avail.

[OSM-talk-ie] Out of Copyright OS paper maps Limerick and Tipperary

2016-02-20 Thread Brian Hollinshead
I have a quantity of Out of Copyright OS maps , mostly 1912/1955, 6 inch as well as 25 and 60 inch. These were donated to OSM Ireland by various interests for us to bleed them dry of detail we need and then offer them on to National and Local County Libraries. ( Both Limerick and Tipperary are

Re: [OSM-talk-ie] Talk-ie Digest, Vol 81, Issue 8

2016-02-16 Thread Brian Hollinshead
t; Today's Topics: > >1. Re: Talk-ie Digest, Vol 81, Issue 7 (Brian Hollinshead) >2. Re: Talk-ie Digest, Vol 81, Issue 7 (Martin List-Petersen) > > > ---------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2016 12:47

Re: [OSM-talk-ie] Talk-ie Digest, Vol 81, Issue 7

2016-02-09 Thread Brian Hollinshead
ssage-ID: <56b8863c.4000...@list-petersen.dk> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed > > Hi, > > I'd like the Westmeath ones. I can pick them up in Dublin at a > convenient time. > > Kind regards, > Martin List-Petersen > > On 07/02/16 10:20, B

Re: [OSM-talk-ie] Talk-ie Digest, Vol 80, Issue 1

2016-01-10 Thread Brian Hollinshead
can reach the person managing the list at > talk-ie-ow...@openstreetmap.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Talk-ie digest..." > > > Today's Topi

Re: [OSM-talk-ie] Talk-ie Digest, Vol 79, Issue 8

2015-12-24 Thread Brian Hollinshead
Article about OSM Ireland I had read Richards paper to the SotM in 2013 and found it interesting, nice to read it again. If not too much trouble Richard could you please issue a statistical update paragraph, also for the web page, just of the lines below from your article. It would be of interest

[OSM-talk-ie] Dividing houses with returns as terrace

2015-08-08 Thread Brian Hollinshead
I have routinely used the terracer plugin in JOSM to divide a long/single building into a set of terraced houses. Recently I was talking OSM to a librarian from Casimir Road, Harolds Cross, Dublin, I asked would he like to share the house numbers with me if I added the outlines first. He readily

Re: [OSM-talk-ie] Talk-ie Digest, Vol 73, Issue 13

2015-06-26 Thread Brian Hollinshead
Hi all Yes Dave. I will be at meet up. I will have with me some OS out of copyright paper sheets (probably Kilkenny, Wicklow and Dublin)and photos of others Counties. 6, 25, and 50. I have found it useful doing townlands and other detail to have either a real 6, or a photo of one to help

Re: [OSM-talk-ie] Talk-ie Digest, Vol 71, Issue 3

2015-04-18 Thread Brian Hollinshead
: 1. Excluding nodes in Overpass query (Brian Hollinshead) 2. Re: Excluding nodes in Overpass query (Donal Diamond) -- Message: 1 Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2015 11:47:54 +0100 From: Brian Hollinshead br...@hollinshead.net

[OSM-talk-ie] Excluding nodes in Overpass query

2015-04-12 Thread Brian Hollinshead
I have an overpass query which includes all EDs in Stillorgan LEA (2014) http://url.ie/yyqb I wish to exclude nodes and only include ways and relations so as to avoid node markers in Mapbox which I have just started learning. I know I can remove them from the geojson file between overpass and

Re: [OSM-talk-ie] Talk-ie Digest, Vol 70, Issue 6

2015-03-25 Thread Brian Hollinshead
Hi Dave et al, Nice to see the up to date coverage. I see Dublin is stuck around 52%. Help is needed in Fingal for Townlands, I had added some and switched to finishing South Dublin and Dun Laoghaire. Am running out of stamina (have been doing EDs as well), so lest anybody shied away from Fingal

Re: [OSM-talk-ie] Talk-ie Digest, Vol 65, Issue 26

2014-10-30 Thread Brian Hollinshead
edit your Subject line so it is more specific than Re: Contents of Talk-ie digest... Today's Topics: 1. Overpass or wizard query (Brian Hollinshead) 2. Re: Overpass or wizard query (Donal Diamond) 3. Dublin.ie Dublin City Community Maps project (Stephen Judge) 4. Re: Dublin.ie

[OSM-talk-ie] Generic headstone icon to use with leaflet/osm

2014-10-20 Thread Brian Hollinshead
Hi All I am looking for an generic headstone icon image to use as marker with leaflet for a map showing cemeteries and graveyards, County Dublin project at present. Thought it preferable to use an OSM one if such exists. looked at OSM wiki icons under people, leisure and health! but found

[OSM-talk-ie] RDS library series talk on OSM this week

2014-10-19 Thread Brian Hollinshead
Wednesday 22nd October, 6.00pm. Merrion Road Dublin Talk details are at http://www.rds.ie/cat_event_detail.jsp?itemID=1103706 At the last hack-day some of you kindly made useful suggestions regarding a draft of powerpoint I was putting together for some library talks. The present title is

[OSM-talk-ie] Downloading by overpass API or XAPI data internal to a county

2014-05-20 Thread Brian Hollinshead
Last year using Maperitive I created a page with the Townlands, Civil Parishes and Baronies of County Carlow. with no detail outside the county.Will bring a copy on Sunday. Not knowing how else to, and as a one off, I slowly over a morning added pieces to a Josm file and then painfully weeded the

[OSM-talk-ie] Hack day and scans for sharing of 1 inch townland index maps 6 inch of Kilkenny.

2014-05-20 Thread Brian Hollinshead
I will have scans with me on Sunday of full or partial 1 inch townland index maps for Wicklow, Kilkenny, Derry and Dublin. Also a scan of 1938 baronies for the whole country. Also various scans of 6inch of Kilkenny including #6 Castlecomer, #10 Ballyragget, #19 Kilkenny City, #28 Thomastown, #29

[OSM-talk-ie] Permission for names for Dublin Bus bus stops?

2014-04-12 Thread Brian Hollinshead
while mapping 17 and 18 bus, when walking have used the name on the shelter where there is one. Do we have permission from Dublin Bus to use the names on their web page. This week I logged all stops on the 184 Bray~Netownmountkennedy with notes re shelter, bench where possible but have no names.