[OSM-talk-ie] Corrections - Oriel Road, Carrickmacross, Monaghan

Hi, I'm not an editor, so I would be grateful if someone could make the following corrections. The road marked Drummond Otra R135 here: http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=16/53.9694/-6.7140 appears to actually be Oriel Road: https://maps.google.ie/maps?q=Carrickmacross&hl=en&ll=53.969883,-6.70

[OSM-talk-ie] Over-zealous rejection of sources by editors

Hi, As background, I am editing the Road Traffic (Special Speed Limits)(County Monaghan) Bye-Laws, 2014. I may sound angry in this email, but please take it as frustration and confusion. Over the last day I have added notes to various roads around County Monaghan, several of which have been r

[OSM-talk-ie] Over-zealous rejection of sources by editors

Hi, Thanks for coming back to me. 1. I can appreciate people protecting the investment in time and effort, but perhaps someone could look over the last 48 hours of notes and see if there are acceptable sources. 2. What sources can be used? * Primary legislation - acts. Technically copyright o

[OSM-talk-ie] NRA planning maps

Hi, In road construction and the like, the designers would always do their own surveying, using the OSI maps only as a guide, as they would have no information on how up to date or or accurate the OSI data is. the OSI data would also lack some of the information they would be seeking, e.g. tree

[OSM-talk-ie] Mobile speed camera zones

Hi, 1. While the Go-safe cameras may often use particular spots, they can be placed anywhere in a zone. Garda vehicles can be anywhere at all, not just the designated zones. I understnad this is the current list of zones: http://www.garda.ie/Documents/User/Total%20list%20of%20ALL%20727%20activ

[OSM-talk-ie] Speed Limits

Hi, Sorry, I use the ID in-browser editor. The problem is sometimes there is no field, as opposed to the field is blank. Awesome Map. It would be useful, in areas that are mostly done, for it to be able to flag roads that don't have a speed limit set (on map), or that has an ambiguous speed li

[OSM-talk-ie] Permission for names for Dublin Bus bus stops?

Hi, The person mentioned is Derry O'Leary, strategic planning manager with Dublin Bus - derry.ole...@dublinbus.ie (publicly available). Dublin Bus has about 5,000 unique, active stop (numbers 1-7,500 approximately - be careful not to confuse them with bus shelter numbers), Bus Éireann about 5

[OSM-talk-ie] Permission for names for Dublin Bus bus stops?‏

--- Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. Margaret Mead From: Peter Cranny To: Colm Moore Subject: RE: OpenStreetMap Hi Colm, This is the data set you need http://www.transportforireland.ie

[OSM-talk-ie] Railways

Hi all, I've done a fair bit on railways over the last month. However, there are some changes I can't edit with the ID editor. * Railway status (open / closed) is ~98% complete. * Railway electrification is ~99.99% complete, but voltage and current is only ~95% complete. * Gauge is ~99% complet

[OSM-talk-ie] Dublin street names from Dublin City Council

Hi, I agree that there are some particular problems with Dublin street names. This document: www.dublincity.ie/SiteCollectionDocuments/Sráidainmneacha Bhaile Atha Cliath.pdf lists Nassau Street = Sráid Nassau. The street sign lists Nassau Street = Sráid Thobair Phádraig. It is down to over-

[OSM-talk-ie] Telephone exchanges, religious buildings

Hi, 1. There appears to be no way to mark a telephone exchange. 2. What is the best way to mark: ChurchesPresbyteries (the priest's house)ConventsSimilar buildings While they can be marked as a point, what should the landuse and building areas be marked as? 3. Dublin City Centre is currently m

[OSM-talk-ie] Townlands

Hi Where you see "Part of Ballygobackwards" or similar, the townland is physically split, with one or more exclaves. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enclave_and_exclave Colm PS Can people trim their emails so that (several) previous emails aren't quoted. :) -

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

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

[OSM-talk-ie] Logainm import

Hi, > From: Rory McCann > Subject: Re: [OSM-talk-ie] Logainm import? > > 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 exam

Re: [OSM-talk-ie] openpostcode - any interest?

> Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2014 14:50:59 + > From: Dave Corley > Subject: Re: [OSM-talk-ie] openpostcode - any interest? > Regarding possible privacy issues, I've yet to find someone to explain to me > how a buildings eircode is any different from a buildings address. At the moment, practically

[OSM-talk-ie] Townland naming oddities

Hi, > From: Dave Corley > Subject: [OSM-talk-ie] Townland naming oddities > > Hi all, > > I'm putting the finishing touches to another video based on a number of > questions that have come up over the last number of weeks. I've covered each > one of these in the video to act as a guide for

Re: [OSM-talk-ie] Townland naming oddities

Hi, > One resource I've actually found useful, is the schools list here > http://www.education.ie/en/Publications/Statistics/Data-on-Individual-Schools/Data-on-Individual-Schools.html Schools names and naming conventions are practically a language of their own. Many schools have large variations

[OSM-talk-ie] Fermanagh border

Hi, Did someone 'break' the Fermanagh border with the Republic? :) http://www.itoworld.com/map/172?lon=-7.64421&lat=54.43404&zoom=7&fullscreen=true Colm --- Never doubt that a small grou

Re: [OSM-talk-ie] Talk-ie Digest, Vol 67, Issue 7

Hi all, Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2014 17:01:27 +0100 From: Rory McCann Subject: Re: [OSM-talk-ie] Coastal Rocks and Boundaries > NB: county councils are changing soon, so this might change, > I dunno. You can see admin_level's on this map: > http://layers.openstreetmap.fr/ 1. In the Republic, counc

[OSM-talk-ie] Bord na Móna railways

Hi, Happy New Year to all. 1. Bord na Móna www.bordnamona.ie is sometimes recorded on OSM as "Bord Na Móna" (capital N). While OSM can understand the two are the same thing, other systems don't, e.g. on this map: http://www.itoworld.com/map/248?lon=-7.95104&lat=53.25239&zoom=10&fullscreen=tru

[OSM-talk-ie] Problem with ID editor

Hi, Is anyone having a problem with this today. I got a couple of error messages and now I'm having problems even selecting nodes. I have / had about 25 edits on Malahide Road between Griffith and Collins Avenue. Colm ---

[OSM-talk-ie] Joint workshop with Open Knowledge Ireland

Hi, Health Atlas Ireland has someof this data, but the site seems unusable. https://www.healthatlasireland.ie/ http://www.hiqa.ie/resource-centre/professionals/health-information-sources/health-atlas The HSE 'Services Near You' site seems to be better, but like anything, some of the data is off

[OSM-talk-ie] Spam

Hi, I've received spam via the internal OSM messaging system (NOT this mailing list) How do I report this? Colm --- Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can ch

Re: [OSM-talk-ie] Water depth in lake

Hi, This is potentially life or death information, so I'm not sure if it is approved for OSM. Different datums (measurements) are used: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chart_datum However, with lakes, you might find novel effects on water depth, like flows from higher rivers / lakes, reservoirs

[OSM-talk-ie] Ulster and Northern Ireland boundaries

Hi, 1. http://www.openstreetmap.org/edit?editor=id&relation=3772997#map=17/54.92081/-8.90721 I've tweaked the boundary of Ulster (RoI) by changing z=5 to admin_level=5 As this affects 2 countries, 3 provinces, 11 counties ... and so on, I thought I might mention it, in case something ends up b

[OSM-talk-ie] Did someone pull the plug on the bath?

The country is looking awfullt blyue at the moment: http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=7/53.596/-6.938 --- Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the wo

[OSM-talk-ie] Did someone pull the bath plug?

Hi, The country is looking awfully blue at the moment: http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=7/53.596/-6.938 :) Colm --- Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens ca

[OSM-talk-ie] Operator=*

Hi, I've been tidying up a lot of these, using http://stat.latlon.org/ie/latest/tags-o.html and the likes. However, some of the links on that page are problematic and I need help. There are a handful of entries for "IE" (Iarnród Éireann) that need to be changed to "Irish Rail" (several thousa

Re: [OSM-talk-ie] Talk-ie Digest, Vol 74, Issue 2

B has no branches in Northern Ireland. Meanwhile First Trust only have branches in Northern Ireland. http://personal.firsttrustbank.co.uk/branchlocator > ------ > > Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2015 13:08:56 +0200 > From: moltonel 3x Combo > Subject: Re: [OSM-talk-ie]

[OSM-talk-ie] Eircode Next steps?

Hi, I agree. No use discussing pros and cons, we need to deal with realities. Would the first step be to get OSM to add a suitable fields on the various editors (apologies, I'm only familiar with iD) iD currently automatically provides fields for: * Address * Housename * Number * Street * City

[OSM-talk-ie] Consolidating address fields

Hi, The following tags are currently used for addresses. Even with the, eh, variation :) available in Irish addresses, I think there could be some consolidation. Current tags in use: name=* (building, business, etc.) addr:name=* addr:housename=* addr:housename:en=* addr:housename:ga=*

[OSM-talk-ie] Eircode Next steps?

Hi, > On 13/07/15 14:49, Colm Moore wrote: > > It would be useful if fields for post code and county could be > > added. > Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2015 16:43:36 +0200 > From: Rory McCann > Subject: Re: [OSM-talk-ie] Eircode Next steps? > > I've submitted a pat

Re: [OSM-talk-ie] Talk-ie Digest, Vol 74, Issue 10

Hi, Adding individual Eircodes shouldn't be a problem. Adding the whole database is another matter. Facts can't be copyrighted, databases can. So just like I can read the name of an office on a sign and add it to OSM, I can do the same when I read the Eircode off their business card. On 17 Jul

Re: [OSM-talk-ie] Talk-ie Digest, Vol 76, Issue 5

Hi, You will probably find that there is a statutory instrument that defines much of the EEZ boundaries. Certainly the boundary between England / Wales and Ireland is defined (by agreement) via a series of straight lines along longitude and latitude. This would avoid using calculated mid-points

Re: [OSM-talk-ie] Eir lacking proper attribution

Hi, Look at Crumlin Childrens Hospital, which is only half mapped - it's very much the same as OSM.https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=18/53.32567/-6.31832https://www.google.ie/maps/@53.3261986,-6.3186694,18z Similarly, I only added the name to Aldborough Place in the last few days - Google has t

[OSM-talk-ie] Glanagow Power Station

Hi, In this changeset: http://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/35086504 In tweaking / adding o the power station, I inadvertently deleted the power station itself (Way 263812982). I use the ID editor and the help files seem to be orientated to the other editors. I would be grateful for help. Thank

[OSM-talk-ie] Traffic islands / medians

Hi, I'm wondering what the best way is to deal with traffic islands - the parts of roads that aren't roadway / carriageway and aren't lateral footways / footpaths. Sometimes they are unmapped, sometimes they are mapped as pedestrian areas and/or pedestrian ways . On the road, they generally come

[OSM-talk-ie] Railways

Hi, I've put a lot of effort into railways, filling-out and general tidying up of the main network and having added much of the Bord na Móna and other networks from scratch. I'm the most recent editor [by no means first or only on a lot of them, thanks guys :)] on about 7,800 out of about 10,700

Re: [OSM-talk-ie] An attempt to geocode the list of schools from Dept. Ed. leads nowhere

Hi, The Department of Education have maps here: http://www.education.ie/en/find-a-school so the data is already geo-coded (accuracy might be another matter). Can we ask them / someone else nicely? Colm ---

Re: [OSM-talk-ie] Railways

Hi Michael, Thanks for coming back to me. 1. I haven't been able to access http://product.itoworld.com/map/14 in months. ITO World seems to be down over this weekend. Similarly, the railway layer on http://tools.geofabrik.de/osmi/ hasn't been update in months. 2. The objective is to show the pote

Re: [OSM-talk-ie] Railways

Hi, > Subject: Re: [OSM-talk-ie] Railways > To: colmmoor...@hotmail.com; talk-ie@openstreetmap.org > From: naka...@gmx.net > Date: Sun, 14 Feb 2016 22:44:26 +0100 > > railway=signal is not enough because there is a huge amount of different > signals. Different due to the differences between railw

[OSM-talk-ie] Wiki - Project_Ireland - General & Railways

Hi, http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Ireland#Goals This is quite out of date. Public roads (total) are probably at 95-98%, with mostly boreens and some housing estates to be filled in. Private roads are another matter. Railways are in the order of 99.9%, although the status of some

[OSM-talk-ie] Part of County Waterford appears in Leinster

Hi, There is a tiny part of Waterford that is north of the Suir, around the train station. It's about 2km long, but only a few hundred metres wide. Before the 19th century, this was part of Kilkenny and therefore in Leinster. Since the 19th century, it has been part of Waterford and therefore L

[OSM-talk-ie] Oops, duplicate logain:refs added!

Hi, I had noticed that some logainm locations are slightly 'rough'. While bridges and other point features would normally be within 100 metres, other might be out quite a bit, e.g. Balrothery (Balbriggan, Dublin), which I moved by more than 1km (if I remember correctly). Might the moving of them

[OSM-talk-ie] Landuse

Hi, Caution! Moan ahead! :) There has been talk of adopting a project like mapping all schools. I do think it is worthy. Could I suggest an alternative in landuse, in particular landuse=residential? We map lots of roads, forests and farmland, but not so mush residential usage. As it stands, ther

Re: [OSM-talk-ie] Landuse

Hi, > Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2016 01:19:26 +0200 > From: moltonel 3x Combo > > Landuse is a bit tricky in OSM because it has a large part of subjectivity. Agreed, it is more about the general feel of an area than the literal presence or absence of particular features. > How wide does a street need

Re: [OSM-talk-ie] Landuse

Hi, http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=15/51.9065/-8.1553 Midleton is a useful example of the different types of housing development. I added most of the landuse in the town. Around the centre of the town there are lots of mixed use streets, that aren't readily decipherable from the Bing photos

[OSM-talk-ie] Libraries

Hi, I'm suggesting moving some of these by as little as 10 metres - so as to make it clear what street they are on. As best I can determine: Cork City Council City Library (Grand Parade) - move east 50 metres Bishopstown - move north east 1 km - in Wilton Shopping Centre, not Bishopscourt Shop

Re: [OSM-talk-ie] When is a townland a townland (and when is it 2+ > townlands)?

Hi, I concur with Paddy. Treat each part as a separate townland and name it TownlandName (Barony) as is the traditional convention. If necessary, the part-townlands could be joined as a relation(?) as TownlandName. Note that some townlands are not contiguous with themselves and there are encl

[OSM-talk-ie] Church of Ireland

Hi, I took the long way around to get to the supermarket and found myself outside Church of Ireland House in Rathmines. I spoke to one of their IT people and they are familiar with OSM and are favourably inclined to facilitating us. They can provide us with a KML of their current churches (and po

[OSM-talk-ie] Police Stations

Hi, I did a big tidy up of police stations (Garda, PSNI and minor forces) over the last few days. I'm coming up with about 400 Garda stations, out of approximately 650. I'm not sure how many PSNI stations there are. Given that the Garda have given us the GoSafe speed zones, I wonder if they migh

[OSM-talk-ie] GoSafe PDF

Hi, With any public document that is available in PDF, you will normally be able to get the source word processor, spreadsheet, etc. original on request. Colm --- Never doubt that a small g

Re: [OSM-talk-ie] History of Townlands - What can we put on a slide?

Hi, One thing omitted in previous posts was the impetuous to map townlands in the 1840s - taxation via rates. Some of the results of this was the creation of urban district councils (which became town councils in 2001 and were abolished in 2014) and rural district councils (long abolished). Thes

Re: [OSM-talk-ie] Mobile speed camera zones

Hi, Both on OSM and in the Real World™, I've done a lot of work on speed limits. In http://www.dttas.ie/sites/default/files/upload/general/Guide_Speed_Limits_Mar_2015.pdf there are two models for writing speed limit bye-laws:* Dunmanway model - draw a line around the zone and everything inside i

[OSM-talk-ie] 'Ireland'

Hi, Given that we have two re;ations, Ireland the island and Ireland the country, I'm wondering if we should rationalise things and remove Ireland the node (it's in an arbitrary location in Tipperary)? http://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/6040654http://www.openstreetmap.org/node/1420871007http:/

[OSM-talk-ie] Deleting a long duplicate way

Hi, I've found a pair of long ways that seem to be duplicates of each other. It's a 25km section of gas pipeline from Lusk to Dunshaughlin. Superficially they look the same, but they seem not to be identical. Before I delete one, could someone have a look and see if this is the right thing to do

[OSM-talk-ie] Go on - we trust you at this stage ;-)

at this stage ;-) > > D > > > > On 3 September 2016 at 04:15, Colm Moore wrote: > > > Hi, > > I've found a pair of long ways that seem to be duplicates of each other. > > It's a 25km section of gas pipeline from Lusk to Dunshaughlin. > >

[OSM-talk-ie] Broken Islands

Hi, Can someone look at Cape Clear (island) and Sherkin Island? The boundaries seem to be set up (and many details added), but they aren't areas. http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/389717766http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/389900878 In comparison, Hare Island appears as an area. http://www.openstree

[OSM-talk-ie] http://taginfo.openstreetmap.ie/ down

Hi, This is down for a second time in about a week. Is this a resource issue? Error message below. Colm --- Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change

[OSM-talk-ie] Error on http://overpass-turbo.openstreetmap.ie/

Hi, I've been getting this error since last night. :) Colm An error occured during the execution of the overpass query! This is what overpass API returned: Error: runtime error: open64: 2 No such file or directory /osm3s_v0.7.53_osm_ba

[OSM-talk-ie] Schools

Hi, Someone, it might have been Rory looked at geocoding all schools, but the data available was, err, of poor quality. daft.ie have issues their (post-primary) schools report: http://www.daft.ie/report/daft-schools-report-2016.pdf using data from the Department of Education, so someone seem

Re: [OSM-talk-ie] Typos in Townland names

Hi, I corrected at least one - Kiltalown in Dublin- after checking with Rory: http://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/4513764 However, in dealing with 60,000+ names, we need to be careful and not assume that all the mistakes are in the OSM data entry - it may be that there are errors in other

[OSM-talk-ie] Unmapped village if anyone wants to use it for teaching purposes

Hi http://www.openstreetmap.org/node/668051865 The village of Lauravale (population 1,258) in Armagh is almost completely unmapped, if anyone wants to use it for teaching purposes. The main roads were mapped and I added landuse last night^h^h^h^h^h really early this morning. Colm

Re: [OSM-talk-ie] Talk-ie Digest, Vol 94, Issue 1

Hi, I had a chat with WernerP. He is an established editor. He will sign up to the mailing list. It appears he was based in Ireland, but might not be anymore. He was looking for less-mapped areas. Colm -

[OSM-talk-ie] Ring / Fort / Castle

Hi, There was a discussion of this last week. I've done a summary of related tags as they are currently in use in Ireland / Northern Ireland. It's an extract from http://stat.latlon.org/ie/latest/ While they might not have huge currency, they are a perfectly mapable feature. Colm

Re: [OSM-talk-ie] Local chapter application by OpenStreetMap United Kingdom

Paul, About 12% of my edits are in the UK, mostly Northern Ireland, with a strong leaning to power and some other networks. I have no particular opinion on this, other than there are certain practicalities that make treating the island of Ireland as a single geographical / mapping entity usef

[OSM-talk-ie] Waterford Greenway and Athlone-Mullingar

Hi, As a bit of background, these both started life as Irish gauge railways. Waterford-Dungarvan was mostly single track and Athlone-Mullingar was mostly double track. The tracks on Waterford-Dungarvan were removed in the 1990s and a narrow gauge tourist railway built at Kilmeaden. With the

[OSM-talk-ie] Mass edits

Hi, Tidying up some addresses, I have a 47 entries where: * addr:city=Offaly * addr:housenumber=Shinrone * addr:street=Roscrea Road Where addr:city should be addr:county and addr:housenumber should be addr:city. Let's ignore for the moment that the Roscrea Road name is questionable at the Ro

Re: [OSM-talk-ie] Choice of grid

Hi, Most of my experience is in transport. Anything I've seen for use by the 'general public', like the Discovery series maps, seems to be Irish Grid. I suspect council town planning uses this also. Anything for 'professional' use, like MapRoad (online road management and maintenance databa

[OSM-talk-ie] Speed limits - Dublin

Hi, Just to let people know that a **lot** of speed limits are changing in Dublin and thousands of ways need updating. It may make sense to share the work and pick assigned areas. * Dublin City - Phase 1 city centre - mapped 99%. * Dublin City - Phase 2 some suburbs changing June 2017 - help

Re: [OSM-talk-ie] New DigitalGlobe satellite imagery layers available!

Hi, Some of the imagery is very fuzzy or blanched out. :( Now might be a good time to go over notes that people have added to the map and any highway=construction or landuse=construction or similar tags. Colm -

Re: [OSM-talk-ie] Talk-ie Digest, Vol 96, Issue 8

Hi Seán, This is off-list. 1. My understanding is that in the Irish case, such litter shouldn't end up in the ocean. Both at the street gully and sewage treatment plant levels, screens, grit chambers and baffles should remove large objects (twigs, leaves, plastic bottles), heavier-than-wat

[OSM-talk-ie] http://overpass-turbo.openstreetmap.ie/

Hi, http://overpass-turbo.openstreetmap.ie/ Is anyone else getting the following message with Chrome and Internet Explorer: "The browser you are currently using, is (most likely) not capable of running (significant parts of) this Application. It must support Web Storage API and cross origin

[OSM-talk-ie] Overpass Turbo

Hi, http://overpass-turbo.openstreetmap.ie/ is faster than EU. However, I am still finding issues. Nominatim (or whatever it uses) appears not to be working. I'm not sure if it is loading hte full OSM database, e.g. http://url.ie/11t49 shows a different set of PSNI stations to http://url.

[OSM-talk-ie] Dublin boundaries on OSM

Hi, Well done Brian. I've dropped you a line on tweaked occasionally. Could you take a look at this note: http://www.openstreetmap.org/note/546244 Has the current Dublin City boundary been fixed? It was fuzzy for a time, certainly in Finglas. Colm

[OSM-talk-ie] OSMI

Hi, The Geometry layer of OSMI http://tools.geofabrik.de/osmi/ hadn't been updating recently, so there is a big backlog. I've fixed the following from 'Data from 2017-06-18 20:43 (UTC)' * 'Single node in way' * 'Duplicate node in way' - Dublin only However, there are lots of 'Self-intersectin

Re: [OSM-talk-ie] Public drinking fountains (Seán Lynch)

Seán, Overpass-turbo will find things like this. Once you have the query correct, it will find 99.99% of things (I've only had errors 3 times in a year). http://url.ie/11un5 To edit the query, click on the Wizard. You can run queries like. amenity=drinking_water amenity=drinking_water in Mayo

[OSM-talk-ie] Using greater than & less than values in Overpass-euro

Hi, Note that there is a list of populations (and almost every other tag, except for a few like name=*) here: http://stat.latlon.org/ie/latest/tags-p.html It is sorted 'alphabetically', not numerically, i.e. it is sorted 10, 20, 30, 50, 500, 60, 90. Colm ---

[OSM-talk-ie] FIXME~stub

Hi, I've been using the following query on Overpass-Turbo: "highway=unclassified and FIXME~stub or highway=unclassified and FIXME~Stub or highway=unclassified and fixme~stub or highway=unclassified and fixme~Stub" - shortcut http://url.ie/11v2c I'm removing the stubs by completing the way an

[OSM-talk-ie] Need help with some relations

Hi, No, I don't need the in-laws bumped off. ;) I have all but tidied up the Geometry layer here: http://tools.geofabrik.de/osmi/ but have some shpes that I have problems with. I would be grateful if someone could correct them. Shape interconnected with with self and relations https://www.

[OSM-talk-ie] Esri World Imagery on OpenStreetMap

Hi, It seems Esri World Imagery is available on OpenStreetMap. I don't know the extent. Some of it may be related to the DigitalGlobe imagery. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Esri https://blogs.esri.com/esri/arcgis/2017/08/24/world-imagery-in-osm/ Esri is unrelated to The Economic and

[OSM-talk-ie] overpass-turbo.openstreetmap.ie

Hi, This seems to have not updated in 2 days. Have the hamsters reached escape velocity? :) Colm --- Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the w

[OSM-talk-ie] Email privacy

Hi, I note that this mailing list is put on the web here: https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-ie/2015-July/001272.html This includes email addresses in the format person at example.com Is this appropriate? Colm --

Re: [OSM-talk-ie] Email privacy

Hi, It's not about privacy as such, more about the spam risk (I'm getting a fair bit of phishing at the moment). Pages like that would be ripe for harvesting email addresses. Colm --

Re: [OSM-talk-ie] overpass-turbo.openstreetmap.ie

Hi, Thanks for your efforts guys. Colm --- Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. Margaret M

Re: [OSM-talk-ie] DIT study of Balbriggan

Hi, Over time, Stabilo_boss, others and I have added a fair bit of detail to Balbriggan, such that the map there is generally in a better condition than the surrounding towns, the big difference being that the the other towns generally have a higher percentage (but still low) of individual hou

Re: [OSM-talk-ie] How you can improve the mapping of Irish schools

Hi, Taking a look at https://www.education.ie/en/find-a-school it seems they have gone to substantial efforts to improve the data, with EirCode, Irish Grid, ITM and Digital degrees. Fields are: Secondary schools * Academic Year * Roll Number * Official School Name * Address

Re: [OSM-talk-ie] Esri World Imagery on OpenStreetMap

--- Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. Margaret Mead From: Colm Moore Sent: 26 August 2017 02:15 To: talk-ie@openstreetmap.org Subject: Esri World Imagery on

[OSM-talk-ie] Clash between Logainm and GNS name spelling

Hi, It seems the English-language spelling of the village name is different to the ED name (which matches GNS). What does one do? http://www.openstreetmap.org/node/52263371 https://www.logainm.ie/en/1374346 https://www.logainm.ie/en/1167099 Thank you Colm --

[OSM-talk-ie] Luas Cross City

Hi, This is due to open on 9 December 2017. The entire railway is in place and the remaining works are things like ticket validators, signage, depot / substation works, tidying up, etc. When should the railway be changed from railway=construction to railway=tram? Stops are currently named "s

Re: [OSM-talk-ie] Royal demense (Tadeusz Cantwell)

Hi, With the formation of the Irish Free State, the lands, powers and obligations of the crown here were transferred to the new state. The name "royal demense" is not in current use. That said, other historical boundaries are mapped on OSM, e.g. Dublin City boundary in 1900 http://www.openstr

[OSM-talk-ie] Overpass Turbo error (hamster feeding time)

Hi, I'm getting the following error when running even basic queries: An error occured during the execution of the overpass query! This is what overpass API returned: Error: runtime error: open64: 2 No such file or directory /osm3s_v0.7.54_osm_base Dispatcher_Client::1 I'll buy a sandwich a

Re: [OSM-talk-ie] Overpass Turbo error (hamster feeding time)

Hi Donal, It's every single query, regardless of tag or query format. http://url.ie/123ua http://url.ie/123ub http://url.ie/123uc http://url.ie/123ud Colm --- Never doubt that a sm

[OSM-talk-ie] Is data being corrupted?

Hi, Please don't correct this error until we know what is happening. :) Of late, I've noticed some mapping errors, e.g. a node on a road that has been dragged off-road by a few hundred metres. When I check the last edit, it might not have been edited in 5 years. I thought it implausible that su

Re: [OSM-talk-ie] Maps.openstreetmap.ie Pink tiles

Hi, Pink 'tiles' tend to indicate that the tiles aren't available / are being refreshed. http://overpass-turbo.openstreetmap.ie/ is about 16 days out of date. Colm --- Never doubt th

Re: [OSM-talk-ie] Round towers

Hi, While we are discussing towers, there are many masts that are mis-tagged as towers. This is typically with mobile phone masts and similar. A man_made=tower is a building and has (normally internal) floor space, albeit sometimes very modest https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:man_made=

Re: [OSM-talk-ie] Release - OpenLitterMap.com Paper now Published Online [ OPEN ACCESS ] (Seán Lynch)

Hi, Talk to the likes of https://twitter.com/DCCbeta who may be able to help with support. Colm --- Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the wor

[OSM-talk-ie] http://stat.latlon.org/

Hi, For those that use this service, the OSM Statistics for Ireland and Northern Ireland are back on line http://stat.latlon.org/ie/latest/ Message from Alexandr Zeinalov below. Colm > On 2018-06-20 11:30:02 UTC Alexandr Zeinalov wrote: > > Statistics update is not running automatically

[OSM-talk-ie] Untagged ways

Hi, Is there a way to search for ways that don't have tags or relations tied to them? Thanks Colm --- Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the

Re: [OSM-talk-ie] Untagged ways

on of OpenStreetMap in Ireland; Colm Moore Subject: Re: [OSM-talk-ie] Untagged ways Yes! This overpass query finds them: [bbox:{{bbox}}][out:xml][timeout:250]; ( way(if:count_tags() == 0); - (relation; >;); ); out meta; >; out meta qt; I have that saved in JOSM'

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