Re: [OSM-talk] Irish placenames anomaly

2013-07-15 Thread Peter Körner
Hi Am 14.07.2013 21:52, schrieb Steve Chilton: The distribution of Irish placenames from OSM presents a couple of geographical anomalies. (See http://steve8.dev.openstreetmap.org/OSM_Placenames_Ireland.jpg). First, the west-east central belt has suspiciously far fewer names than

Re: [OSM-talk] Irish placenames anomaly

2013-07-15 Thread Barry Hunter
This suggests that the data has come from GNS/NGA I noticed the same anomoly in Geonames, http://forum.geonames.org/gforum/posts/list/268.page which used the same source. Apprently its to do with how the data was digitized from paper maps. (the dense blob, is likly to be a local mapper!) On

[OSM-talk] Irish placenames anomaly

2013-07-15 Thread Richard Cantwell
I can confirm that the Irish OSM community (well, Dermot) ran an import of the GNS data for the island of Ireland in 2007. The dense blob is the County of Longford where user PaddyMatthews (http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/PaddyMatthews/edits) has been painstakingly adding townland and other

[OSM-talk] Irish placenames anomaly

2013-07-14 Thread Steve Chilton
The distribution of Irish placenames from OSM presents a couple of geographical anomalies. (See http://steve8.dev.openstreetmap.org/OSM_Placenames_Ireland.jpg). First, the west-east central belt has suspiciously far fewer names than immediately to the north and south. And secondly, bang in the