The State of Ireland

Presentation for State of the Map, Birmingham, 2013

Transcript

1. The State of Ireland
   Richard Cantwell @ManAboutCouch
   

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2. Mercator, 1570 Petty, 1685
   A (very) brief History of Irish Mapping
   

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3. Ordnance Survey, 1:10,560, 1829-41
   

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4. British War Office, 1:63,360, 1941-43
   

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5. Rectified and available in JOSM / Potlatch
   Thanks to National Library of Scotland & Trinity College Dublin
   

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6. British War Office, 1:63,360, 1941-43
   

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7. British War Office, 1:25,000, 1939 - Reprojected 1906 1:10,560 Mapping
   Scanning Complete, Rectification in progress
   34 Sheets online, 616 still to be rectified and uploaded
   

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8. пусть мы использовать ваши карты товарищ!
   

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9. OpenStreetMap: Ireland 2006 - 2010
   

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10. First ODbL Licensed Area
    

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16. 125,000 Km
    86,000 Km – 2012/01
    108,000 Km – 2012/11
    126,000 Km – 2013/08
    Approximate guide only, all sorts of caveats apply.
    

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17. 0
    1000000
    2000000
    3000000
    4000000
    5000000
    6000000
    7000000
    8000000
    9000000
    Number of Objects in Ireland (IOI) Jan - Aug 2013
    +25%
    In 6 Months
    Objects = Nodes + Ways + Relations
    Data courtesy of User:IrlJidel (maintainer of taginfo.openstreetmap.ie)
    

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18. But!
    © Stan Openshaw
    

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20. 4,500 Done, 56,500 to go..
    

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28. Average: 15 Editors per day
    

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30. TileServer
    With Irish language tileset
    

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31. TagInfo
    

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32. Nominatim
    

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33. xapi
    All running on donated hardware/bandwidth, thanks user:marlow!
    

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34. Standard History bbox
    Usable due to small number of changesets: ~50 per day
    

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35. IRC: #osm-ie
    Running osmbot (thanks iandees!)
    

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36. 7,000 Buildings added in 36 hours
    www.openstreetmap.org/user/DaCor
    

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37. What can we do better?
    flic.kr/p/2Yu3VW
    

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38. The State of Ireland
    Richard Cantwell @ManAboutCouch
    

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