Just back from the meeting, some interesting and useful discussion as usual. Ciaran did a presentation on the simplicity of Mapmillary. This was followed later on by a quick walk around the locality by four teams on foot. Then uploading the resulting images on our return. Ciaran talked about adding natural and man-made details to the map as well as roads using the Mapillary plugin on JOSM to indicate the valuable source these images are for adding
There was a demonstration of using overass_turbo.eu to extract various data sets, save it and then import it into a multilayered u.map. Like using leaflet but with no knowledge of code or grammar needed, it suits me very well. Our thanks to OSM France who host the site. Two example shown include u.osmfr.org/m/161139 which shows 6 of the boundaries named Rathvilly which enclose Rathvilly Village and u.osmfr.org/m/180392 with numerous layers showing Superintendent Registrars Districts and Registrars District on the east coast. These are particularly useful to historians and those interested in genealogy. The relations can be easily built as all the pieces of townland boundary are already there. Arising from talk about out of copyright maps we viewed dublinhistoricmaps.ie which has various georeferenced images from 1700s, 1800s and 1900s. Where the features coincide with modern OSM maps is best seen by using the slider at the bottom right. Looking forward to the next meeting to get some answers about the desirability or otherwise of adding dates to the names of historical boundaries. There just wasn't time today. Hope to see some of you there. _______________________________________________ Talk-ie mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ie
