Brian thanks for raising this point - may I broaden it a little? I too noticed that some mappers include "ED" and "Civil Parish" but actually many do not and I haven't noticed any guidance on this anywhere for the moment. So it would be good to come to a consensus on these terms also.
Thinking about it a bit, I would suggest we try to find a way to improve the readability of the map rather than add the extra text to the names of CPs, EDs or Baronies inside the OSM database. For example, it might be possible for the renderer of the (really helpful) slippymap at http://dev3.openstreetmap.ie/osm/slippymap.html to add the extra text automatically, or perhaps the fonts / colours / hatching could be tweaked. I suggest approaching it from this point of view so we can stick to the OSM convention of capturing the "what" just the once, in the other tags only. As well as reducing effort, text, duplication, possibility of mistakes, it also allows names to be queried automatically as expected. Forgive the ridiculous examples but if somebody wanted to analyse how many "things" start with each letter of the alphabet...we don't want them to have to write an exception for Irish Baronies so that they start at the 11th character (to skip "Barony of "). Or for the student who for some reason wants to calculate the average length of names of things in OSM, we don't want them to have to subtract 13 when it comes to length of names of " Civil Parish". Just my 2 cents. Thanks for listening, and thanks to everyone who is contributing to the townlanding project. - John. On 2 December 2014 at 10:00, Brian Hollinshead <br...@hollinshead.net> wrote: > In County Carlow there is Rathvilly Town, and ED and Civil Parish and > Barony. Having an interest in Historical boundaries as well as their > relevance for genealogy I printed out an A1 map of County Carlow with > townlands and Civil parishes and Baronies. > > Even though the barony names were in a different font size and colour I > felt it would be more friendly to anyone reading the map to prefix > Barony of to each barony name where I had not remembered to. I may also > have strayed into PJNAs wexford with the same in mind. (Sorry PJ) > > Maybe we could reach a gentle consensus as to how to approach this, I look > forward to your views. We already include ED and Civil Parish in their > titles. I wonder if we are going to include Barony of whether the > preset magician Donal can prepopulate the name box? No hardship if he can't. > _______________________________________________ > 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
