WikiProject Ireland

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Ireland is a Country in Europe at latitude 53.04, longitude -7.75. This page contains information relating to mapping activity that is specific to Ireland. There is another wiki page for Northern Ireland


Contents

Goals

If you have a goal that you are working towards or one that you would like to see get done (and are maybe willing to get the ball rolling) then add it to the list here, create a section where it can be coordinated and tracked, and a way of measuring progress. And then get on with it :-)

Beware of Copyright!

Make sure you are not infringing on any copyright when contributing to OSM. In particular, note that it is not allowed to trace from copyright-protected maps. It is also not allowed to copy streetnames, etc. Read the FAQ and documentation carefully before you start, so that you are aware of any issues that you might not have thought about before.

Contacting Irish Mappers

Mailing list

IRC

For instant chat:

Feel free to come and ask questions.

You'll need IRC client software (comparison at Wikipedia) or you if you prefer something more lightweight (or need to go through port 80), have a look at IRC@Work or Mibbit

Ireland OSM Forum

Twitter

From time to time, announcements are made via twitter: [@osm_ie]


Road Network

Tagging schema and progress for mapping the Irish road network is available at Ireland/Roads

Public Transport

Infrastructure is mapped as nodes and ways. Bus stops on the ground and iron rails are mapped as such. Relations collect ways and stop nodes to create routes.

Bus stops

highway=bus_stop should be applied to nodes to represent a bus stop.

The operator=* tag might be applied to bus stops. It should represent the operator of that bus route. Some current uses:

If a stop is served by multiple operators, the stop itself should not be tagged with operator, that should be done in the route relation.

Railway rails

This section discusses the mapping of the infrastructure, i.e. the sleepers and rails on the ground. See next section for routes rolling on these rails.

Name %age complete Checked by Notes
Ballina - Manulla Junction 100% gpsmayo2009 15:58, 08 July 2011 (UTC) Confirmed by GPS tracklog.
Westport - Castlebar 95% Needs to be confirmed by GPS
Castlebar - Manulla Junction 100% Needs to be confirmed by GPS
Cherryville - Waterford 50% GPS to Athy only, landsat roughly traced Athy to Thomastown, Muine Bheag and Thomastown stations not marked
Ballybrophy - Limerick Junction 95% Kenguest 12:41, 1 May 2009 (UTC) Needs to be confirmed by GPS. Railway bridges "on the ground" are a-ways from where they are projected to be.
Sligo - Dublin Conolly 100% Blazejos 12:41, 12 May 2010 (UTC) done with GPS but I'm not certain that evrywhere should be bridge instead of railway crossing

Public transport routes

How to create public transport relations (on top of existing rails and roads), is discussed here in detail: Ireland/Public_transport_routes

Relations/Routes are used to mark out the route of a bus or train route. Please set the ref=* tag of the relation to the bus number (eg ref=46A, ref=145). The operator=* is similar to bus stops. Since bus stops aren't numbered in Dublin, no stop numbers have been applied yet.

Irish Waymarked Walking Trail Network

There are currently 31 National Waymarked Ways, offering walkers approx. 3,000 km of marked walking routes throughout Ireland.

See Ireland/Irish Waymarked Walking Trail Network

Irish Inland Waterways

The waterways consist of the Shannon, Corrib, Erne, canal systems and others. The mapping conforms with the OpenSeaMap standards where possible, with the intention of producing charts for navigation.

See Ireland/Irish Inland Waterways

Background Imagery sources

National Library of Scotland

Collaboration with the National Library of Scotland has provided the following out-of-copyright map layers.

There's is an OpenLayers viewer of these maps on maps.openstreetmap.ie or you can view them on NLS Historic Maps site

To add these layers in JOSM

  1. Go to Preferences (F12) , WMS/TMS , Imagery Providers.
  2. Under "Available default entries", scroll down to 'IE' entries.
  3. Select "Ireland British War Office One-Inch 1941-43 GSGS 4136" or "Ireland Bartholomew Quarter-Inch 1940" entry and press 'Activate' button.


Please tag traces with source="NLS Historic Maps" if you use these layers.

European Environmental Agency

The following layers are available as a imagery source in Josm.

These tiles are hosted on Irish OSM community servers. They are generated from EEA shapefiles cut down to the Ireland bounding box and rendered using Mapnik.

Land Cover

See Republic_of_Ireland_Corine_2006_Import

Borders and Boundaries

National Borders, Province and County boundaries, their admin_level and usage of relations are being discussed on this separate Wiki page.

Some county boundaries are formed by the centre line of rivers, which are part of the boundary relation. Be careful when editing such rivers not to change the county boundary accidentally. Do not join these segments with other river segments.

Sport

The new option to tag GAA pitches has been consolidated in favour or predecessors used:

sport=gaelic_games which describes a sport, is not an abbreviation and gives an outsider an initial idea what direction to think of.

The term "Gaelic Games" is used by the GAA themselves.

An icon that can be submitted to renderers is in preparation.

If specific kinds of gaelic games need to be specified, that can be done by sub-tagging:

gaelic_games:hurling=yes
gaelic_games:football=yes
gaelic_games:camogie=yes
gaelic_games:rounders=yes

Previously used tags are now depricated:

In sport=gaelic_football;hurling the semicolon is allowed for tags with multiple values, but some people do not like it. The advantage was that it has a meaning for everybody worldwide what it is, in comparison to sport=gaa, which has no semicolon, an acronym is used with is discouraged, and nobody out of Ireland knows what it means. Capital letters or dots (GAA or G.A.A.) were against tagging rules.

Names in the Irish Language

See Ireland/Gaelic

People interested in Ireland

We communicate via localized mailinglist and forum and IRC channel #osm-ie (in oftc net).

See also: Category:Users in Ireland

Events

See Ireland/Events

Useful Resources

As always, please respect the copyright of these sites!

OSM-related

Road-related resources

Other mapping/GIS-related resources

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