Re: [OSM-talk-ie] An attempt to geocode the list of schools from Dept. Ed. leads nowhere

2016-02-03 Thread Dave Corley
Hey Rory, Did you try plugging in the location data from polling stations on data.gov.ie It won't give a complete picture as not all are used as polling stations and there's likely a lot of mismatch between the names but it might work for some for counties that have released polling station info

[OSM-talk-ie] Maps on Townlands.ie

2016-02-03 Thread Rory McCann
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, Townlands.ie now has maps! http://www.townlands.ie/pages/maps/ It shows where townlands have recently been mapped, and who has mapped townlands. I've also added some "land not in county/ed/barony/etc". Though apparently most of the "land not

[OSM-talk-ie] How you can improve the mapping of Irish schools

2016-02-03 Thread Rory McCann
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, The UK community has a current quarterly project to improve mapping of schools. Despite the Dept of Education schools list not being very useful[1][2], there are still things we can do in Ireland to improve our mapping of schools. Taginfo t

[OSM-talk-ie] An attempt to geocode the list of schools from Dept. Ed. leads nowhere

2016-02-03 Thread Rory McCann
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, As as been mentioned on this list, in the UK they are doing a quarterly project to map more schools[1] and there is a list of schools from the Department of Education[2][3], but that only has addresses, not location s. I thought I'd download

[OSM-talk-ie] Railways

2016-02-03 Thread Colm Moore
Hi, I've put a lot of effort into railways, filling-out and general tidying up of the main network and having added much of the Bord na Móna and other networks from scratch. I'm the most recent editor [by no means first or only on a lot of them, thanks guys :)] on about 7,800 out of about 10,700