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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.