[OSM-talk] Irish placenames anomaly

[Barry Hunter]

This suggests that the data has come from GNS/NGA

I noticed the same anomoly in Geonames,
http://forum.geonames.org/gforum/posts/list/268.page
which used the same source.

Apprently its to do with how the data was digitized from paper maps.

(the dense blob, is likly to be a local mapper!)



On Sun, Jul 14, 2013 at 8:52 PM, Steve Chilton <s.l.chilton at mdx.ac.uk>wrote:

> The distribution of Irish placenames from OSM presents a couple of
> geographical anomalies. (See
> http://steve8.dev.openstreetmap.org/OSM_Placenames_Ireland.jpg). First,
> the west-east central belt has suspiciously far fewer names than
> immediately to the north and south. And secondly, bang in the middle of
> this belt is a roughly circular area with a dense mass of placenames.
> Any explanations spring to mind...?
>
> Cheers
> Steve
>
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