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IrlJidel Irish map

Posted by Joseph O'Dea on 28 December 2010 in English.

Thanks for the pointer to the Irish language map. I am a raw beginner at openstreetmap and I'm just getting my feet wet. It's not an easy or intuitive interface to learn and I haven't even found a truly useful set of tutorials in the system yet.

Having seen street names in Irish in Edit Mode, I wondered that they weren't to be seen in View Mode, but at least your link takes me to an Irish version. The layer showing as-yet-untranslated streets is useful and I'll add a few translations as time permits, with help from www.logainm.ie.

I spent the bones of an hour gathering bus route data from dublinbus.ie, and hoped to tag some bus stops in the area with data I had discovered, but the method of editing bus stops and routes remains a tricky and rather opaque mystery, so I had to abandon that for now! Editing in Wikipedia is altogether a far easier thing to learn.

Thanks again for the map link.

J.

Discussion

Comment from Sanderd17 on 28 December 2010 at 08:50

relations are a quite advanced thing.

Maybe it works better for you to edit relations in Potlatch 1 or in JOSM.

just look at the wiki for the tagging schemas.

Comment from mackerski on 29 December 2010 at 03:33

Not to put a downer on your bus route mapping, but the Dublin Bus web site cannot be considered a clean source. Barring actual permission to use the data presented there you are safer to map only those routes you know or those that you can deduce from your own ground surveys of the bus stops.

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