[OSM-talk-ie] Townland Mapping in Ireland (an update)

[Dave Corley]

So its been over 2 months since my last one of these mails so I wanted to
give you all a fresh update.

Since the last mail, on Nov 1, over 6,000 additional townlands have been
mapped. In other words, 10% of all townlands for the whole country were
done in the last 10 weeks. That is staggering!

In terms of counties, the following were complete up to my last mail

Carlow
Longford
Fermanagh

You can now add the following to those

Offaly, Sligo & Westmeath

Based on info from townlands.ie, the following counties are currently
underway and are due to be finished in 18 months (or less)

Antrim (2 weeks)
Clare (6 months)
Dublin (17 months)
Galway (12 months)
Kildare (15 months)
Laois (15 months)
Leitrim (6 months)
Meath (2 months)
Wexford (3 months)
Wicklow (3 months)

That will bring us to a total of 16 fully mapped counties out of 32 or 50%
which is fantastic but it still leaves a big gap in terms of completing the
remaining list of counties:

Armagh
Cavan
Cork
Derry
Donegal
Down
Kerry
Kilkenny
Limerick
Louth
Mayo
Monaghan
Roscommon
Tipperary
Tyrone
Waterford

If you are reading this and you have not yet mapped any townlands, don't be
shy. there is a bit of a learning curve to it, but once you get going you
will fly along at it.

As has been mentioned many times, there is a full wiki page with walk
through videos, guides, FAQ etc all available here -
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Ireland/Mapping_Townlands


Thanks,
Dave




On Sat, Nov 1, 2014 at 3:59 AM, Dave Corley <davecorley at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> As most of you on this list might have guessed, given the amount of
> townland mapping related mails floating about, the response to this project
> has been, in a word, fantastic!
>
> In my original mail below you can see I mentioned that based on the
> progress at the time of sending, that we were on track to take 11 years to
> finish....in 2025. I can happily report that based on the amount of people
> recently pitching in with this project that the eta for completion is now
> down to approx....
>
> 18 months!!
>
> This is due to the fact that with a load of people chipping in,  we are
> now adding just shy of 100 townlands a day to OSM. It just goes to show
> that the old adage of "many hands make light work" holds true. In terms of
> round numbers, we broke 12,000 yesterday so we are 20% of the way there.
>
> Some other townland related news:
>
> - Donal (IrlJidel) has set up a new map showing the current coverage of
> townlands for the country. This map now receives hourly updates (roughly 8
> mins past the hour). It also shows the county, barony & civil parish
> boundaries that have been added. You can view this here -
> http://dev3.openstreetmap.ie/osm/slippymap.html
>
> - Some good news on the GSI sheets, there is a possibility of a set of
> replacements for those in the works. Cormac (Boggedy) is in contact with a
> library in England that may be able to supply fresh scans that we can use
> to replace those GSI sheets as they are simply too difficult for most
> people to use due to their quality. More news on this once there's
> something to report.
>
> - The FAQ has been updated with many questions which have come up here and
> in IRC so take a look there if you have any questions, it may already be
> answered for you.
>
> - I'm planning a refresh of some of the content of the videos based on
> feedback and pointers I've received. Don't worry if you have already
> watched them, or were planning to, I will release a separate video with all
> the updated bits collected together so you won't need to go back and watch
> them again. Most of the updates relate to a bit of fine tuning or slight
> corrections/improvements to the instruction so overall there will be no
> huge changes
>
> Finally, to give you some idea of where there is activity, below is a list
> of all counties broken into 3 groups, completed, in progress and not being
> mapped. This is purely to show that while we've had a great response, there
> are still a lot of areas that some attention, so if there is anybody out
> there thinking about joining in, don't worry, it's really not that
> complicated once you get going.
>
> == Completed ==
>
> Carlow
> Longford
> Fermanagh
>
> == In Progress ==
>
> Antrim
> Cavan
> Clare
> Donegal
> Dublin
> Galway
> Offaly
> Roscommon
> Sligo
> Tyrone
> Westmeath (this is being mapped at an extraordinary rate)
> Wicklow
>
> == Not Being Mapped ==
>
> Armagh
> Cork
> Derry
> Down
> Kerry
> Kilkenny
> Laois
> Limerick
> Louth
> Mayo
> Meath
> Monaghan
> Tipperary
> Waterford
>
> Thanks,
> Dave
>
> On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 10:47 PM, Dave Corley <davecorley at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I wanted to let you all know (though some of you are aware) that we now
>> have a wiki page setup that details the process of townland mapping in
>> Ireland, from start to finish.
>>
>> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Ireland/Mapping_Townlands
>>
>> Included on this page are:
>>
>> - Some basic stats on the current qty of townlands in the OpenStreetMap
>> database
>> - A high level overview of the process from start to finish
>> - An eight part video series (which contains 10 videos, I know) which
>> goes into every detail of the process from start to finish on a
>> stage-by-stage process. Each video is linked separately along with a link
>> to the full playlist. The videos total close to 2.5 hrs of guides on every
>> aspect of the process
>> - Links to every tool and site used in the process
>> - A table to add your name for the county you are actively mapping in
>> (you can map in as many as you wish)
>> - A FAQ which will grow over time as more questions come up
>> - A list of links to other resources which are handy to have when mapping
>> townlands
>>
>> This wiki page, and all of its contents were put together to increase the
>> speed with which we are mapping these. Based on the current progress, we
>> will not have complete coverage of the island of Ireland until 2025, so it
>> is hoped that these aids will bring that down significantly.
>>
>> Is it doable that we could be finished before the 1916 celebrations in
>> Mar 2016? With enough people contributing I would hope so. Mapping
>> townlands is a slow process, but with more people we can get this over the
>> finish line.
>>
>> For anyone interested in joining in, I would encourage you to review the
>> materials on the wiki page before you start. If anyone has any questions,
>> please feel free to send a mail to this list where everyone can see both
>> the questions and more importantly, the answer.
>>
>> I would also ask, that if anyone is active on Twitter, please retweet the
>> following:
>>
>> https://twitter.com/DaCor_ie/status/521778468665970688
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Dave
>> aka DaCor on OSM
>> aaka @DaCor_ie on Twitter
>>
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