[OSM-talk-ie] Dublin street names from Dublin City Council

[Mike Połtyn]

Hi everybody.

I am fairly new to OSM and this is my first post here, so I want to
introduce myself. Hi, my name is Michał Połtyn; I am a web developer
from Poland, currently living in Dublin. My nickname on OSM is Holek.

Now, that's good enough, so let's cut to the chase, shall we? I have
been adding Irish names to Dublin streets[1] by hand[2] recently[3],
and I thought there's a better way.

Turns out, Dublin City Council releases a PDF with all city names in
English and Irish.[4]

Now, I found out that this dataset is also available on
dublinked.com[5] as XLS or CSV (the most important for us), where it's
licensed as "Public data, available to everyone". I would assume this
means "public domain"; in the end it is just a list of properties.

My idea was to add all missing Irish names to streets in Dublin in one
big changeset, and report all other conflicting names on a Wiki page
to review. I thought I could prepare a bot script to add all name:ga
tags for all matching streets and run it during Dublin hackaton next
Sunday under a supervision of OSM masters :)

What are your thoughts, concerns? I'm open for suggestions, critique,
and any good word in general.

Take care, everybody!
-- 
Michał "Hołek" Połtyn

[1] http://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/22218893
[2] http://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/22234506
[3] http://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/22218453
[4] http://www.dublincity.ie/SiteCollectionDocuments/Sr%C3%A1idainmneacha%20Bhaile%20Atha%20Cliath.pdf
(PDF, 357 KB)
[5] http://dublinked.com/datastore/datasets/dataset-213.php