[OSM-talk-ie] Logainm import?

[Dave Corley]

I would be in favour of doing an import with all of the above. Based on how
long its taking to manually add townland boundaries, if we were to manually
add all this info also, we are looking at several additional years worth of
work.

However I would like to see it done possibly county by county once all
townlands are done in each county just purely to allow for easy management
and validation. For example, right now it could be done for Carlow and
Longford as there are no more townlands to be mapped in those counties.

I don't know if that is possible, Rory?

Dave



On 18 Oct 2014 16:40, "Rory McCann" <rory at technomancy.org> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I'd like to have a discussion about importing data from Logainm, the
> official Irish place names database. They recently released their data
> under ODbL, the same copyright licence as OSM, so there is no copyright
> reasons not to use it.
>
> I've downloaded the logainm database, and convert it CSV:
> http://www.technomancy.org/logainm/
>
> So, let's talk about imports. Should we import? What can we import?
>
> IMO we could get a few things from it:
>
> (a) "logainm:ref". We could add the logainm id to OSM object that are in
> Logainm. This would allow applications that use OSM data to be able link
> logainm, or logainm users to find out where something is in OSM.
>
> I'd probably use this to add a link to logainm.ie for each townland on
> townlands.ie
>
> (b) Irish names, especially for townlands.
>
> Currently only 12% of our ~11,0000 townlands have a "name:ga" tag, for
> the irish name. We could use logainm to drastically increase this
> number, and get a pretty good name:ga coverage. However we can't do a
> pure overwrite and will have 'merge' the stuff properly.
>
> Logainm is the legal/offical name for a townland/etc. We can add
> offical_name:ga for sure.
>
> (c) Higher level hierarchies
>
> Logainm tells you (say) what Civil Parish townland X is in. We could use
> this to help map those boundaries when we have the townlands mapped.
>
> (d) Other bits and pieces
>
> Logainm has the location and name for lots of non-townland things that
> OSM could benefit from: sub-townlands, houses, fields, monuments, rocks,
> castles, etc. We could use Logainm to map and add these to OSM.
>
> (e) Something else?
>
> So, what do people think? Should we do it? Why not? What can we do?
>
> I've keeping some scripts I use on this github:
> https://github.com/rory/logainm-parse
>
> Rory
>
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