OK, I’ll try again. Donie
> On 5 Feb 2016, at 12:41, Daniel Cussen <[email protected]> wrote: > >> They are actually easy to map but it’s just getting people to do it. > > Having actually mapped them, they are not so easy. Normally the most > dangerous roads in the country, many busy back roads, some are missing > signs, have signs that do not match the locations suggested, it is > dangerous and difficult. The NI signs are somewhat secret but can be > found. I would recommend exhausting the garda option first, try > sending a letter and see do you get a response. Also the site is more > likely to have up to date zones before they are even signed. If we > could get long term agreement the data points are easily imported. > > On 05/02/2016, Donie Kelly <[email protected]> wrote: >> I tried getting info from the Guards last year at some stage and got zero >> response. The zones also changed this year so they require updating manually >> anyway to bypass the lag that will inevitably happen if we are looking for >> official data. >> >> They are actually easy to map but it’s just getting people to do it. >> >> Donie >> >>> On 5 Feb 2016, at 12:09, Daniel Cussen <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> I looked at this a few years ago and started some work. I was >>> interested in using OSMAND as the app for android as it has inbuilt >>> support and a sat nav. I manually mapped a few zones and was waiting >>> for OSMAND to update their data. I also manually took the start and >>> end locations of zones, mostly on paper and I think I have about 50 >>> zones nationwide. I passed 3 vans on 1 day! >>> >>> My plan was to map them and ask for others to fill in the blanks. >>> Since then I have been distracted with other projects. The data is on >>> the garda.ie site. On the site it says all data is theirs. On a couple >>> of occasions we emailed asking could we use the data but got no >>> definite answer. They also changed some of the zones a few years ago. >>> There is an ordinance survey paper road map with them marked. The >>> quickest would be to get garda approval (some sat navs have them) or >>> else to accurately collect them. >>> >>> Note some speed vans owned by the gardai can set up anywhere while >>> others are limited to the zones. >>> >>> I would recommend ringing the Gardai and asking. >>> >>> On 05/02/2016, Donie Kelly <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> I was hoping to open source an iOS app to the github page at some stage >>>> which would show and warn you when driving in a speed camera zone. It >>>> would >>>> be pulling the data from OSM… if it was there… >>>> >>>> That’s not a huge project but requires both the zone and the maxspeed to >>>> be >>>> available for it to work. >>>> >>>> Would you consider that? The data is not available anywhere as I’ve tried >>>> to >>>> get it but it’s not forthcoming. >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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 >> > > _______________________________________________ > 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
