[OSM-talk-ie] Place names and townland boundaries

[Killyfole and District Development Assocation]

Brian,

These nodes were imported as basically there was no other source at the time.  We 
now have Bing and GSGS3906 to reference, both of which are extremely accurate.  

I know in my part of the world the GNS Nodes are extremely inaccurate, some are 
1-10km off where they should be!!  My advice would be to firstly find its correct 
location and using Bing check that there isn’t a hamlet at this location. Like a small 
cluster of houses. If it is actually a hamlet, move it into position where it should be.  
Some of the nodes aren’t actually hamlets at all, just a large townland in the area, in 
these cases the node should be deleted once you have mapped the townland 
correctly.

If in doubt, give us a shout in #osm-ie chat room or on the mailing list.  

KDDA

On Sunday 26 Oct 2014 10:47:55 Brian Prangle wrote:
> I've just come across a heavily-tagged node with a place name that emanates
> from "Experimental import of Irish places and POIs from GNS Dataset". The
> author is xybot.
> 
> Its identity is 52268408.
> 
> It is located outside the townland of the same name, and on the other side
> of Lough Derravaragh from the hamlet of the same name.
> 
> What's the status of these nodes?  Can I just move them when I see errors
> like this and add a note?
> 
> Regards
> 
> Brian
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