Hi everybody. I am fairly new to OSM and this is my first post here, so I want to introduce myself. Hi, my name is Michał Połtyn; I am a web developer from Poland, currently living in Dublin. My nickname on OSM is Holek.
Now, that's good enough, so let's cut to the chase, shall we? I have been adding Irish names to Dublin streets[1] by hand[2] recently[3], and I thought there's a better way. Turns out, Dublin City Council releases a PDF with all city names in English and Irish.[4] Now, I found out that this dataset is also available on dublinked.com[5] as XLS or CSV (the most important for us), where it's licensed as "Public data, available to everyone". I would assume this means "public domain"; in the end it is just a list of properties. My idea was to add all missing Irish names to streets in Dublin in one big changeset, and report all other conflicting names on a Wiki page to review. I thought I could prepare a bot script to add all name:ga tags for all matching streets and run it during Dublin hackaton next Sunday under a supervision of OSM masters :) What are your thoughts, concerns? I'm open for suggestions, critique, and any good word in general. Take care, everybody! -- Michał "Hołek" Połtyn [1] http://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/22218893 [2] http://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/22234506 [3] http://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/22218453 [4] http://www.dublincity.ie/SiteCollectionDocuments/Sr%C3%A1idainmneacha%20Bhaile%20Atha%20Cliath.pdf (PDF, 357 KB) [5] http://dublinked.com/datastore/datasets/dataset-213.php _______________________________________________ Talk-ie mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ie
