[OSM-talk-ie] Fortnight of....

[Daniel Cussen]

>They are actually easy to map but it’s just getting people to do it.

Having actually mapped them, they are not so easy. Normally the most
dangerous roads in the country, many busy back roads, some are missing
signs, have signs that do not match the locations suggested, it is
dangerous and difficult. The NI signs are somewhat secret but can be
found. I would recommend exhausting the garda option first, try
sending a letter and see do you get a response. Also the site is more
likely to have up to date zones before they are even signed. If we
could get long term agreement the data points are easily imported.

On 05/02/2016, Donie Kelly <donie.kelly at gmail.com> wrote:
> I tried getting info from the Guards last year at some stage and got zero
> response. The zones also changed this year so they require updating manually
> anyway to bypass the lag that will inevitably happen if we are looking for
> official data.
>
> They are actually easy to map but it’s just getting people to do it.
>
> Donie
>
>> On 5 Feb 2016, at 12:09, Daniel Cussen <dan at post.com> wrote:
>>
>> I looked at this a few years ago and started some work. I was
>> interested in using OSMAND as the app for android as it has inbuilt
>> support and a sat nav. I manually mapped a few zones and was waiting
>> for OSMAND to update their data. I also manually took the start and
>> end locations of zones, mostly on paper and I think I have about 50
>> zones nationwide. I passed 3 vans on 1 day!
>>
>> My plan was to map them and ask for others to fill in the blanks.
>> Since then I have been distracted with other projects. The data is on
>> the garda.ie site. On the site it says all data is theirs. On a couple
>> of occasions we emailed asking could we use the data but got no
>> definite answer. They also changed some of the zones a few years ago.
>> There is an ordinance survey paper road map with them marked. The
>> quickest would be to get garda approval (some sat navs have them) or
>> else to accurately collect them.
>>
>> Note some speed vans owned by the gardai can set up anywhere while
>> others are limited to the zones.
>>
>> I would recommend ringing the Gardai and asking.
>>
>> On 05/02/2016, Donie Kelly <donie.kelly at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I was hoping to open source an iOS app to the github page at some stage
>>> which would show and warn you when driving in a speed camera zone. It
>>> would
>>> be pulling the data from OSM… if it was there…
>>>
>>> That’s not a huge project but requires both the zone and the maxspeed to
>>> be
>>> available for it to work.
>>>
>>> Would you consider that? The data is not available anywhere as I’ve tried
>>> to
>>> get it but it’s not forthcoming.
>>
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