Thanks for the info on the Barony maps Rory. I will certainly have a go at the Antrim one. Do Barony boundaries coincide with townland boundaries?
Stephen > On 20 Jan 2015, at 20:34, Rory McCann <[email protected]> wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > >> On 20/01/15 20:35, Dave Foley wrote: >> A few more questions if nobody minds: > >> 1. Why do townlands have ARP written underneath them? > > ARP = Acres, Roods and Perches, an imperial unit of measurement that's > not used anymore. Those numbers tell you the area of the townland. > townlands.ie shows the area of townlands in many units, including "ARP". > > I find the area helpful when mapping, you can tell if it's a big > townland or small one, which can help you find the border. > >> 2. How are people mapping EDs currently? I can see some ED >> boundaries but I find it hard enough even to see townland >> boundaries without trying to work out EDs. I don't see any names >> either. 3. I've seen some low-res maps for baronies, are there any >> other maps for this? 4. Are there maps for Civil Parishes? > > One way (which I haven't tried much) is to use indexes and match it up > by townlands. So if you know that ED X is made up of townland A, B and > C, you can map it that way. > > There are some barony maps available here: > http://mapwarper.net/maps/tag/barony > > Rory > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1 > > iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJUvrvLAAoJEOrWdmeZivv2nFcH/j0mH/tieaWdeBRZktf1zkol > TqeeQFOrMbEuAtb66IBmon241PCSczBar8ZK5BrpAawOYsiosRP6jRZTgWk3q7SS > RfIaiDVsiUhjoX7rxZ8Wy44634zb2RMJn/5DzaSUj46REnCk3XGyjrC2/nuvLYGC > pWUKwPGSpfSVkyAbJdVshaqT7+a6UV+hM17nOfehCFViYglPhxrfRNYuflhVUgkH > 9Tikqv4XACn9YdQu5XPHV4LvwqlS96MZL8E/Ss0Ua6KwqFseISKe9lYUsQv0fMl7 > cghbWw0JX9Y4aI9B9pTGHnSI0m+wFWS1x5tYly/nczf/BpUB9dfZKDljg1jGGlY= > =Gca6 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > _______________________________________________ > 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
