-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 04/01/15 15:37, Brian Prangle wrote: > I came across this project last week > http://www.meathfieldnames.com/ which is a voluntary effort > identifying field names. So far they've collected about 24,000. > Impressive > > Even more impressive is that their intractive map uses OSM > > Two things emerge > > 1.They're using OSM without attribution ( or it's so cleverly > hidden I couldn't find it) so someone needs to contact them to > correct this > > 2. Would it be useful to ask them if we could import their data? > > Regards > > Brian
Hi, Interesting find! And truly a pretty impressive undertaking. Mapping all the townlands in a county is hard, to go to the next level and add fields as well! And then to go even further and add in lots of metadata about the fields (names/owners/natural features), is certainly a very impressive feat! If you zoom in very carefully, you can see their townland borders don't quite match OSM's so it's not using OSM data for townlands. We only have a third of Meath covered anyway. Since they are only displaying their data on top of OSM, there is no licence issues. How they created it makes for interesting reading[1], they have mapped the townlands and fields from scratch from their own copies of the old maps: > it was decided to consult with various agencies to establish if > any of them might have data sets already available with fields in > Meath already digitised. The project consulted with Ordnance > Survey Ireland, The Property Registration Authority (formerly Land > Registry) and the Department of Agriculture. > > After considerable research, it was found that none of these > bodies had a suitable dataset that they were prepared to make > available to Meath Field Names Project. I wonder what was wrong with the OSi data? They then contracted Mallon Technologies to trace their old maps to get the vector townlands, and that was done in 1-2 months. Not bad! Nevertheless, we should definitely contact them and tell them about OSM, what we're doing, and see if they would be interested in sharing their data. Likewise Mallon Technologies. I can do that. Rory [1] http://www.meathfieldnames.com/index.php/database-and-mapping -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJUtsghAAoJEOrWdmeZivv2aqYH/0cTFa2sS5+JaqQaeE4xjYdq 5XGxdl7eHlGbNY/+MFId69XFJ4JFlF9U81g+hv9h/QbcphhB5k4xgLkUdNtOklmt A/H87KwduRmXO0kUPy8hM3W7KeIgW24LXKxRmVM9gzku4lqhAaL+7ofdUDMsZ8i8 r2NUO6iSxrMSAPoSEtkQVCXtNK+j4v2T58w7wC3oONt7lW2cgEO71CVz8vvJl9eD eLm0NM7uTqSDoIWTjs7h8dOqsjEeZC49h3qO+xXfLxo+Qg79mWcfhI03h87ZKpnD eBaP9OYjFHjn/jLNezJn92j06LTYotp4PVlJVaPRzQjViExYo1FZyONne8zaUxw= =FVsM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Talk-ie mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ie
