Hi Cathal, I'm glad the townlands page is of use to you :)
To answer your questions: 1) Just very quickly, I took a look at the sheet you were working on and fair play, you have a load of points on it, but be careful, the spread of the points is leaving a large section of the sheet not warped as you have clustered a few points close together in some locations, but left large spaces between others. You may want another few points to the large areas where none exist, it'll make tracing boundaries a whole lot easier later on if the spread of control points is more or less spread evenly across the sheet. To answer your question, once you click the "Warp Image" button, it will update in josm, at least that's what I've been told and I haven't seen any indication otherwise....so far at least ;) 2) Once you get to 8, you can leave it as is. Changing it to 9 will occur at a later date. 3) You can add links to the wiki page no problem, its a separate account to the main OSM site though, so you'll need to create an account there. Some things to keep in mind though: - if you have found another resource that might be useful you need to be very careful of copyright. The one thing we can't risk is, infringing on somebody else's copyright as it could lead to having to remove large portions of data from the OSM database. - If you are unsure of the copyright status I would recommend, and encourage, you to get in contact with the owners of the resource, in this case Clare CoCo, and discuss with them giving written permission to allow OSM to use their site as an aid while tracing townlands. - The one caveat with this is the map they have on their site is most likely an Ordance Survey one, so that will also need to be reviewed. If it is still covered by the OSi copyright, then it will be off-limits. I know, for example, Galway, Mayo and Clare library's are setting up a site with out-of-copyright maps which we could make use of as a resource if they gave permission and there would be no issue with the OSi as their copyright would have expired. - If they give permission, they only restriction they can impose is to request attribution and at most a link back, which would be documented on the contributors page in the left menu of the wiki - http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Contributors - If it is a case that the resource is a set of out-of-copyright maps online which has been georeferenced already, the best possible result is to get permission to use the WMS layer which would then allow you to load it straight into JOSM the same as we are doing with the TCD map sheets So, by all means, if you've found something that could be useful to you and/or other mappers, chase it up to get the necessary permissions to allow people to make use of it freely. The best place to start is usually find out who the GIS person is in the council, and go from there, up the ranks. I'd suggest dropping an email first to get the ball rolling. You know what they say, you don't ask, you don't get :) If you need any support, just shout, I'm only up the road in Galway. Thanks, Dave On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 3:04 AM, Cathal Garvey < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > Firstly, thanks to DaveCor, and contributors, to this page > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Ireland/Mapping_Townlands + videos. > What an incredible resource to have! > > I've made a start on Clare (around areas I kind of know). Three quick > questions that I can't find the answers to yet: > > 1) Having mapped over 35 control points, in Map Warper, and using the Warp > button, it all looks OK. Is that image then rectified/updated in real-time > (i.e. I should see it within seconds in JOSM when turning on the Ir/Br War > Office layer), or do I need to do something to trigger it being published? > It looks fine in both, but I've only done very minor edits / add new CPs, > so I can't tell the difference! > > 2) In MapCraft, I've changed the status for the tile I'm working on to 8/0 > (because I've more than 30 CPs). Am I responsible for changing to 9/9 > (avail. on Ir Tile Server), or do I need to do something / notify someone > that I think it's good to go? > > 3) Where's best to put a link that might be helpful to others interested > in mapping CE townlands (there are others, right?!).. would that be in the > aforementioned Wiki page, or somewhere else? It's only one link (a CE Co. > Co. map of townlands, approximate locations which can make it easier to > find those blurred dotted lines!). > > Thanks again for the learning resources! > > .cg > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-ie mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ie > _______________________________________________ Talk-ie mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ie
