[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. I

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

2020-11-05 Thread Patrick Matthews
Brian, As far as I know there were only a few changes in DED boundaries between 1901 and 1911, most of them consisting of a new DED being split off from an existing one (Derry from Roscarbery in Cork, Glenanne in Armagh). The 1911 census reports are available at https://archive.org/search.php?quer

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

2020-11-05 Thread Donal Hunt
I suspect Brian is trying to ascertain what sources were used for mapping each ED. We may have to look at the history of the relations / boundaries to identify the mappers / changesets. Going forward it would be wise to include the source on the actual boundary so it can be verified / it's clear w

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

2020-11-05 Thread Patrick Matthews
I know that for both Longford and Cavan where I mapped EDs the ED boundaries have not changed since they were first set up in the 1840s. On Thu, Nov 5, 2020 at 1:25 PM Donal Hunt wrote: > I suspect Brian is trying to ascertain what sources were used for mapping > each ED. We may have to look at

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

2020-11-05 Thread Patrick Matthews
...other than for the division of EDs into rural and urban parts after 1898 and the set-up of urban and rural districts. On Thu, Nov 5, 2020 at 2:30 PM Patrick Matthews wrote: > I know that for both Longford and Cavan where I mapped EDs the ED > boundaries have not changed since they were first