Re: [OSM-talk-ie] Cert in GIS LIT

2014-11-04 Thread Brian O'Hare
Thats good advice Donal, many thanks. I'll get have a good sense if there are missing sheets for their areas after this evening so might be requesting new ones this week. cheers, Brian. On 4 November 2014 12:04, Donal Diamond wrote: > On 4 November 2014 10:17, Brian O'Hare wrote: > > > As I u

Re: [OSM-talk-ie] Cert in GIS LIT

2014-11-04 Thread Donal Diamond
On 4 November 2014 10:17, Brian O'Hare wrote: > As I understand it they are quite geographically spread, with a few coming > from Cork. Would be great I think > to have them map their own areas to begin with. > For new users it would be much easier if they map areas where there is not a lot of e

Re: [OSM-talk-ie] Cert in GIS LIT

2014-11-04 Thread Brian O'Hare
That's great Dave, many thanks. As I understand it they are quite geographically spread, with a few coming from Cork. Would be great I think to have them map their own areas to begin with. I plan to focus the teaching on using qgis and other open source tools with some MapInfo thrown in so hopefull

Re: [OSM-talk-ie] Cert in GIS LIT

2014-11-04 Thread Dave Corley
I think this is a great idea. The only comments I personally would have are to maybe spread their efforts around Munster a bit, that many people in one county would possibly see editing conflicts due to the size of townland areas. Also, so long as they follow the same steps I don't see any issues,

Re: [OSM-talk-ie] Cert in GIS LIT

2014-11-04 Thread Eimhin Shortt
Hi Brian, As you know , we are ready to roll in Birr witha mapplication and this would be a founding piece of work in community advancement relative to GIS and mapplication work. We never did catch up after last time. Lets do that All the best, Eimhin On Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 9:49 AM, Brian O'

[OSM-talk-ie] Cert in GIS LIT

2014-11-04 Thread Brian O'Hare
Hi all, I'm starting to teach a Cert In GIS at LIT this week. I'd like to involve the students (13 of them) in the townland mapping project and wanted to get in touch in advance to get peoples thoughts on this. I think it could be a very valuable exercise for the students and hopefully would help