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
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
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
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
4 matches
Mail list logo