-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 17/11/14 23:55, Colm Moore wrote: > Briefly explaining the townland -> (civl) parish -> barony -> > county hierarchy might be useful.
As an aside, I'm not sure where Electoral Divisions sit. On townlands.ie I've been putting them between CP and townland ( as you can see here http://www.townlands.ie/galway/ballynahinch/ballindoon/derrylea-electoral-division/ardagh/ ). I'm open to better solutions. > "Townlands with "or" in the title" - with OSM, is there a way to > give alternative names? Yes, use the "alt_name" tag for this. Which is the alt_name and which is the name, well that's the question. :) OSM has lots of options for tagging names. name:ga is the Irish name. I plan to add alt_name:ga to townlands.ie. There's also offical_name etc. [1] > I'm not sure, but some (Dublin, possibly others) city centre areas > were historically mapped on a parish basis only, not townlands. I think this happened in Wexford. It's hard to know if there is a CP without any townland, or if it's a townland that's also a CP, or whatever. In theory we'd love if there was a nice simple unambiguous hierarchy of places and boundaries. But the world doesn't work like that. [1]: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:name Rory -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJUaxxMAAoJEOrWdmeZivv2abMH/io9gFrM4SuNosheVijz8AKJ qCAhsTfJE+jAVFk19EA8hVMP+elIRsd6eqZVcWrw4szv4qttSCq2jfB0pAf2rsl0 iCCKh4iQzuc1/Aquo5dzRt3QklPBc61X0NNuJS1nc9gwDpbSN7iRn3UhAHZY2mow X1SSbdN0sykQlSr9jvT895pb5W0giJe7yHQrzf+fx1yvigiA1Gj7Zh+jXlkK3rL2 TXkVbmrAz91dTfNuUlOz3/a6XQGMqsYTj2wx2GtTaMP977Md1X2kirBde3HjW4QI /rJeSbhu10M0muXVvfxFnhiE0qSJ+ydrYWyrm9Ym1xjOO3T6dOfOGmgJAORvCTI= =9u8W -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Talk-ie mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ie
