I can try to contact Pat McKay and Kay Muhr who used to work on the project under Mícheál, if that would be helpful. I knew others in Land and Property Services (formerly Ordnance Survey) who could have helped but, in the nature of Civil Servants, they have moved on.
Sent from my iPhone > On 4 Jun 2015, at 14:18, Killyfole and District Development Association > <[email protected]> wrote: > > From the material on their website they have some of the townlands for Co > Fermanagh, however the locations are wrong. Is this something we could work > with them to try and resolve? > > PlacenamesNI seem to be in the process of linking to Logainm and vice versa. > In the what’s new section ( http://www.placenamesni.org/whatsnew.php ) they > announce the creation of a two-way electronic link-up. I have tried to > contact Professor Mícheál Ó Mainnín but have been unable to establish any > kind > of communication, I believe he is a very busy person. However, a few other > people who have worked on the Placenames Project seem to be very open to the > idea of working with OSM, especially the ability to display the map in Irish > language. > >> On Thursday 04 Jun 2015 13:27:34 Rory McCann wrote: >> Hi Stephen, >> >> Here's a quick map of what's in Logainm: http://imgur.com/RFOP30Q >> >> As you can see they have a little bit of data for the North, but it's >> nearly entirely "Republic only". Alas. >> >> Maybe when we import it, we can give them a dump (in their format) of >> townlands (etc) for NI? Or if we please logain, then maybe Placenames >> NI might be encouraged to open some data? >> >> Rory >> >>> On 04/06/15 00:04, Stephen Roulston wrote: >>> Sounds really great Rory. >>> >>> Do you know if the Logainm database covers the North? Placenamesni >>> has a fairly comprehensive, but incomplete coverage of the Irish >>> names, but I don't know how easy it would be to access them. KDDA >>> has great contacts in Placenamesni if required. >>> >>> Stephen > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
