Re: [OSM-talk-ie] Logainm import?

2014-10-20 Thread Rory McCann
On 19/10/14 14:48, Colm Moore wrote: On superficial examination, it's geographic information seems imprecise. Now that's interesting. Do you have an examples? Logainm only stores the location of the centre of the townland/county/..., so we still need to map them on OSM. It's imprecise in

Re: [OSM-talk-ie] Logainm import?

2014-10-19 Thread Colm Moore
Hi, I suspect Logainm would be more authoritative **for names** than most other sources, especially the vagaries of local authority (non) signage. For names, it is likely to be as good as Ordnance Survey mapping - and probably more up to date when it comes to official names. For names, it is

Re: [OSM-talk-ie] Logainm import?

2014-10-19 Thread moltonel 3x Combo
On 19/10/2014, Rory McCann r...@technomancy.org wrote: It was pointed out on channel that, as well as the commonly known naming dispute, there is also disagreements about the Irish name of Dingle. An Daingean vs Daingean Ui Chuis. http://www.dinglename.com/ This is a case where name:ga

[OSM-talk-ie] Logainm import?

2014-10-18 Thread Rory McCann
Hi all, I'd like to have a discussion about importing data from Logainm, the official Irish place names database. They recently released their data under ODbL, the same copyright licence as OSM, so there is no copyright reasons not to use it. I've downloaded the logainm database, and convert it

Re: [OSM-talk-ie] Logainm import?

2014-10-18 Thread Dave Corley
I would be in favour of doing an import with all of the above. Based on how long its taking to manually add townland boundaries, if we were to manually add all this info also, we are looking at several additional years worth of work. However I would like to see it done possibly county by county

Re: [OSM-talk-ie] Logainm import?

2014-10-18 Thread moltonel 3x Combo
On 18/10/2014, Rory McCann r...@technomancy.org wrote: Hi all, I'd like to have a discussion about importing data from Logainm, the official Irish place names database. They recently released their data under ODbL, the same copyright licence as OSM, so there is no copyright reasons not to