On 18 April 2017 20:40:06 IST, Colm Moore <[email protected]> wrote: >Paul, > >About 12% of my edits are in the UK, mostly Northern Ireland, with a >strong leaning to power and some other networks. > > >I have no particular opinion on this, other than there are certain >practicalities that make treating the island of Ireland as a single >geographical / mapping entity useful, e.g. the shared border, the >history of places / land administration (county, barony, townland, >etc.). This isn't just about boundaries, but also physical >infrastructure (e.g. the A3 has 5 border crossings), Ireland / Northern >Ireland don't use standard gauge railways (one exception) and >businesses (e.g. some banks operate on both sides of the border and >there is a single electricity market, where companies operate on both >sides of the border). That said, there are other businesses that >operate only in Britain and Northern Ireland (some banks) or Britain >and the Republic (Aldi). > > >That said, just because a chapter covers a particular region, doesn't >mean it can't have friendly relations with its neighbours. :) And it >doesn't stop people mapping across borders. > > >Note that the crown dependencies are not part of the UK, although there >are obvious parallels.
I too live in ROI but include NI in my mapping activities (and Brexit won't change that :p). OSMIE (http://www.openstreetmap.ie/about-osmie/) has AFAIK stalled its progress towards becoming an OSMF local chapter, but I'm sure this'll eventually get done, and we'll want to include the whole island under the same umbrella. I trust that it isn't a problem for the OSMF if NI is covered by two distinct OSMF local chapters ? -- Vdp Sent from a phone. _______________________________________________ Talk-ie mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ie
