[OSM-talk-ie] New Facebook Group for OSM-IE

2014-05-01 Thread Rory McCann
Hi all, I created a Facebook Group for OpenStreetMap in Ireland: https://www.facebook.com/groups/295947493906276/ I know some people are more comfortable using that than mailing lists etc, so I thought we could add that as a communication / community tool. :) Feel free to join it or

Re: [OSM-talk-ie] Over-zealous rejection of sources by editors

2014-03-29 Thread Rory McCann
If in doubt: It's not permissable. Copyright applies, automatically to basically (ish) every map. So unless it has been released, it's unavailable. Alas. Rory On 29/03/14 18:19, da fo43 wrote: The wiki page for Ireland and copyrighted maps is not very useful for someone starting off. I know

Re: [OSM-talk-ie] At this rate, we'll have all townlands mapped by 17th November 2020!

2014-03-02 Thread Rory McCann
(For the benefit of those not on IRC:) This is the old calculate coverage excluding water areas issue others have mentioned. ( https://github.com/rory/osm-irish-townlands/issues/11 ). I'll be doing that next. We won't have to do any special tagging. Rory On 02/03/14 17:02, Killyfole and

[OSM-talk-ie] At this rate, we'll have all townlands mapped by 17th November 2020!

2014-03-01 Thread Rory McCann
Hi all, As you know, we have a nice site for display the currently mapped townlands ( http://www.celtic-knot-creator.com/townland/ ). It's my website and I maintain it. It's updated every day (at about 6am). Based on a suggestion, I just added a new feature to keep track of the coverage

[OSM-talk-ie] OpenStreetMap hack day in TOG, Dublin next Saturday 8th March

2014-03-01 Thread Rory McCann
Hi all, Just a reminder that there's an OpenStreetMap hack day / meet up in TOG, the Dublin hackerspace, next Saturday 8th March, all afternoon (12-5). Everyone (TOG members and non-TOG-members, heavey OSM users, to people just curious about OSM) is welcome. There's no structure to the day,

Re: [OSM-talk-ie] OpenStreetMap hack day in TOG, Dublin next Saturday 8th March

2014-03-01 Thread Rory McCann
Hi, TOG is basically in city-centre Dublin (technically the south west corner of city centre), so any accomodation in city centre would be walkable to TOG. Yes, the Radisson Blu basically overlooks TOG. :) There's a Jury's Inn not far[1] TOG has a a couple of parking spaces in our yard, but

Re: [OSM-talk-ie] Regards from South America

2014-02-05 Thread Rory McCann
Hi Javier, When are you in Dublin? We're planning on having an OSM-IE hack day Saturday 8th March if you're here then. Rory On 03/02/14 19:58, Javier Carranza wrote: Hi, I´m a south american maper soon visiting Dublin and would like to meet OpenStreet Map community there. I work in NGO

Re: [OSM-talk-ie] Interested in a OSM-IE Hack Day / State of the Map day?

2014-02-02 Thread Rory McCann
Looks like Saturday 8th March is the best option. I've closed the poll, and will organise things with TOG. I'll be the point of contact for this (obviously), so any questions/thoughts/suggestions let me know. :) See ye all there! Rory On 22/01/14 21:14, Rory McCann wrote: Hi all, I've made

Re: [OSM-talk-ie] Interested in a OSM-IE Hack Day / State of the Map day?

2014-01-22 Thread Rory McCann
but count me in if its on a Sat, Feb 22nd maybe? I wouldn't be opposed to going for a few drinks afterwards if anyone else is interested Dave On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 1:10 PM, moltonel 3x Combo molto...@gmail.comwrote: On 20/01/2014, Rory McCann r...@technomancy.org wrote: Here's a thought. Would

[OSM-talk-ie] Who's going to State of the Map?

2013-08-13 Thread Rory McCann
Hi all, The OSM conference, State of the Map, is on in a month in Birmingham. Who's going? I'm flying over on Friday evening, back on Sun evn, so wil only be there for the weekend. Hope to see some other Irish folks. Rory ___ Talk-ie mailing

[OSM-talk-ie] Old Map

2011-03-29 Thread Rory McCann
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, I've been doing some research and discovered that in the mid and late 19th century, the ordnance survey did a complete map of Ireland, firstly at 6 inch to the mile (1:105000) and then at 25 inch to the mile (1:2500). You can see these

Re: [OSM-talk-ie] OpenStreetMap mapping party

2010-01-30 Thread Rory McCann
the more knowledge about the process the better. I was also planning a panel discussion on open street map and opensource geodata I'm hoping to get some cartographers and was wondering if you'd be interested in talking about mapping with OSM? all the best Conor Rory McCann wrote

Re: [OSM-talk-ie] Dublin mapping party on Feb 6th or 7th? Cast your vote!

2010-01-18 Thread Rory McCann
I really should be careful when composing emails while tired. On 18/01/10 23:47, Rory McCann wrote: As you may or may not know, there's going to be another mapping party in Dublin. It's going to This should read: As you may or may not know, there's going to be another mapping party in Dublin

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