This is fantastic news, nice work Brian & Donal. On 11 Feb 2015 00:30, "Donal Diamond" <donal.diam...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Good news! > > I went hunting for map sheets that show Civil Parish boundaries and found a > new source at NUIG. > > Brian Hollinshead (brianh) kindly liased with the James Hardiman Library, > National University of Ireland, Galway and got permission for use of map > sheets for OSM use. > > http://archives.library.nuigalway.ie/memorial/memorial-atlas.html > > I've uploaded some of the sheets to mapwarper here: > > http://mapwarper.net/maps/tag/Memorial%20Atlas%20of%20Ireland > > And I've started a map viewer where u can overlay townlands, civil parishes > and baronies at: > > > http://maps.openstreetmap.ie/civilparish_barony.html?zoom=9&lat=52.61135&lon=-7.97937&layers=BFTTFFFF > > Carlow is also available in Josm imagery list. > > The Civil parish boundaries on the map sheets correspond to our townland > boundaries quite well but I have found the odd error. So use the sheets as > a starting point to identify what townlands are in what civil parish. > > If in doubt, refer to the 1901 townland index and 1911 supplements on > histpop: > 1901: http://url.ie/y5tl (don't forget to check errata as > well) > 1911: http://url.ie/y5tm > > You can also look at townland lists for each civil parish at: > http://www.irishancestors.ie/search/townlands/parish_index.php > > This database has lists from 1901 which would be preferable than using the > db at seanrua which is based off 1830s index. > > Even if you have already finished mapping baronies and civil parishes in > your county, please consider warping the sheet for us. Please able to > return a fully rectified set of sheets to NUIG is a fair exchange for them > making them available to us. > > Enjoy! > > Donal > _______________________________________________ > Talk-ie mailing list > Talk-ie@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ie > _______________________________________________ Talk-ie mailing list Talk-ie@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ie
