[OSM-talk-ie] Typos in Townland names

Mark Tully markjtully at gmail.com
Thu Feb 16 16:30:13 UTC 2017


I believe it doesn't work over https because overpass.openstreetmap.ie
(which is being used for the querying) doesn't support https, though I'm
open to correction on that.  The overpass-api.de server does support it,
but I've found it to be a little slower for this map.

Mark

On Thu, 16 Feb 2017 at 15:55 Rory McCann <rory at technomancy.org> wrote:

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> On 16/02/17 16:40, Mark Tully wrote:
> > There is also a umap at
> > http://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/townlands-missing-logainm-data_838
> 33
> >
> >
> which displays townlands without a logainm:ref tag.  This might be usefu
> l
> > in helping to locate townlands with typos.  Bear in mind that it
> > only displays data above zoom 11 (to try to reduce browser
> > slowdowns).
> >
> > Mark
>
> That's pretty cool! I've done overpass queries to find CPs/etc which
> don't have a logainm:ref, but not umap like that.
>
> Yes you can add/change the name tag on OSM, but if you manage to find
> the townland on logainm, you can directly add the logainm:ref tag
> yourself.
>
> The loganm match up code looks at counties, then baronies, then civil
> parishes, then townlands. So if it cannot match up a CP in OSM with
> Logainm, it's not able to match up any of those townlands in the CP.
> It's look at the name, but if there's a logainm:ref, it'll use that
> instead.
>
> If you add logainm:ref tags to civil parishes, then it might be able
> to add logainm details to more townlands.
>
> (BTW it doesn't work over https, and if you have the HTTPS Everywhere
> extension like I do :) )
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