Please report back on their response to your questions. I would be interested in doing something like this in Fermanagh, but have a few questions on how they collected the data from the public. I was thinking of approaching DARD to directly involve farmers, there might even be EU funding for this kind of historical data collection.
Let us know how you get on! On Wednesday 14 Jan 2015 20:48:53 Rory McCann wrote: > On 04/01/15 15:37, Brian Prangle wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ > 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
