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OSI online historic maps not available

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  • 14-05-2015 10:20am
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    Hermy
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 11,314 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    The historic maps at OSI.ie aren't currently available.
    Does anyone know why or if they'll be back?
    I hope so as they're a great resource.

    Genealogy Forum Mod



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    Waitsian
    Registered Users Posts: 1,708 ✭✭✭Waitsian


    Hermy wrote:
    The historic maps at OSI.ie aren't currently available. Does anyone know why or if they'll be back? I hope so as they're a great resource.


    Site maintenance Hermy, they'll be back.


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    shanew
    Registered Users Posts: 2,777 ✭✭✭shanew


    they are partly back - less the Aerial and historic layers. Another update is due tomorrow..

    http://www.osi.ie/About-Us/System-Down.aspx

    p.s. the current maps seem more detailed


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    ozmo
    Registered Users Posts: 3,853 ✭✭✭ozmo


    Hermy wrote: »
    The historic maps at OSI.ie aren't currently available.
    Does anyone know why or if they'll be back?
    I hope so as they're a great resource.

    Historic maps are all back now.
    The main modern day map is much more detailed - showing down to the position of man hole covers! :)

    “Roll it back”



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    shanew
    Registered Users Posts: 2,777 ✭✭✭shanew


    looks like they filled in a few of the gaps on the historic maps also

    working fine on Chrome and IE - keep getting an 'Event not defined' error in FF, even after hard refresh and cookie clearing


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    Hermy
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    Server Issue:ReferenceError: event is not defined

    Not quite there yet for me.:(

    Genealogy Forum Mod



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    ozmo
    Registered Users Posts: 3,853 ✭✭✭ozmo


    Hermy wrote: »
    Not quite there yet for me.:(

    working fine for me now in Chrome,IE & Firefox :cool:

    “Roll it back”



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    Hermy
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 11,314 Mod ✭✭✭✭Hermy


    Working fine now.:)

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    Hermy
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 11,314 Mod ✭✭✭✭Hermy


    shanew wrote: »
    looks like they filled in a few of the gaps on the historic maps also

    There's a large chunk of Cobh still missing alas.:(

    Genealogy Forum Mod



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    shanew
    Registered Users Posts: 2,777 ✭✭✭shanew


    Hermy wrote: »
    Working fine now.:)

    working in FireFox now for me too

    The 6" maps seem much more detailed for counties in Northern Ireland - they were included before but in many cases you could not zoom in as far as for other counties, but the 25" maps dont seem to cover any on N.I. - there was some coverage before.

    The zoom parameter changed at little, so for best zoom on 6" now is 11, was 7 before, so if anyone has any links they might need to update them to suit.


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    shanew
    Registered Users Posts: 2,777 ✭✭✭shanew


    shanew wrote: »
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    The zoom parameter changed at little, so for best zoom on 6" now is 11, was 7 before, so if anyone has any links they might need to update them to suit.

    you dont have to update your links any more - very neat redirect in place to do that for you

    The coverage of the 6" maps has improved, was always good before but for some areas it was not possible to zoom in to the full detail level. Every one of the chapel locations I've checked out so far where I had marked down as 'max zoom not available' now has full zoom available..


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    Hermy
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 11,314 Mod ✭✭✭✭Hermy


    Hermy wrote: »
    There's a large chunk of Cobh still missing alas.:(

    Just had a call from OSI to say they found the missing image for Cobh which is soon to be uploaded and it is one of a number of issues they hope to address in the coming weeks.:)

    Genealogy Forum Mod



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    The Chieftain
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    I hope you will all excuse me popping up again, but two questions occur to me:
    - When was the "Cassini" survey performed? Was it a separate survey? Years ago I read multiple books and articles on the history of mapping in Ireland, and the Ordnance Survey of Ireland in particular (most by J.H. Andrews), and don't recall any mention of this particular survey. [Andrew's book, "A Paper Landscape" is wonderful!]
    - What is the purpose of the new "GeoHive" site? Previously it was easy to just go to OSI. The pessimist in me wonders if this is a prelude to making this a pay-per-view type of situation....


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    kildarejohn
    Registered Users Posts: 310 ✭✭kildarejohn


    See my post under History forum
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057559696


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    HelgaWard
    Registered Users Posts: 568 ✭✭✭HelgaWard


    The Chieftain wrote: »
    - What is the purpose of the new "GeoHive" site? Previously it was easy to just go to OSI. The pessimist in me wonders if this is a prelude to making this a pay-per-view type of situation....

    The concept of the GeoHive site is to bring in data from other organisations as well as the OSi data. All public bodies with GIS Data can publish their datasets to the GeoGive site eg MyPlan data, flood data, conservation & heritage datasets etc etc.


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    Alun
    Registered Users Posts: 21,432 ✭✭✭✭Alun


    You can still just go straight to http://maps.osi.ie for the old interface ... for the time being anyway.


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