Ordnance Survey "Doh!"

Victor

I bought the most up to date version of the Dublin City and District Street Guide, launched last week. http://www.irishmaps.ie/product/display.cfm?ProductID=156

Quite a few Luas stops (Busaras shown inside the Coroner's Court, Four Courts is on the worng side of Church Street) are slightly in the wrong place and Docklands and Phoenix Park stations are out by a few hundred metres.

Aside from that there are vacant sites where there actually buildings and vice versa, much of the Gran Canal is obscured, closed hospitals are still open and the GS&W line from Connolly to Drumcondra has been moved under the roads. :eek:

http://localhostr.com/files/fb80bb/OS%2023a.jpg
http://localhostr.com/files/d56a4a/OS%2038a.jpg


Actual locations

Docklands http://maps.live.com/#JnE9eXAuZHVibGluJTdlc3N0LjAlN2VwZy4xJmJiPTY4LjI2OTM4NjgwNDU2NTclN2U0OS42NTgyMDMxMjUlN2UzMC42MDAwOTM4NzM1NTAxJTdlLTYyLjEzODY3MTg3NQ==

Phoenix Park station http://www.phoenixparkracecourse.com/includes/images/aerialDublin.jpg

On the up side it does include a series of suburban towns not previously included (some of these were previously included in the North Leinster Towns Atlas).

bill_ashmount

Very sloppy.

At least their mountain range ones tend to be accurate, the only ones i ever use.

dogmatix

They might have had to blank out the likes of military barracks for "security" reasons? I bought the latest edition a few days ago and like the expanded coverage but being a new edition I auppose they had to have a few typos and the like.

But it's nowhere near as bad as their 1/25000 wicklow way guide which they brought out about 10 or more years ago which was so badly printed and inaccurate that it had to be withdrawn and has never re-appeared.

Pgibson

Use http://www.flashearth.com/

or http://earth.google.com/enterprise/earth_plus.html

I can see my car simultaneously parked both at work and at home in Google earth.

Move over Bi-Locating Padre Pio.

(Padre Pio could be seen looking out of two different windows of the Vatican at once.)

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mackerski

I bought my own copy today. There's some shocking stuff in there. The large scale central area reckons that Stephen's Green S. is one way. It does show Docklands station in the correct location, though.

The Red Cow M50 interchange is just plain wrong, and looks like somebody superimposed some of the new traffic movements (including some yet to be built, but omitting some that have been) on top of the old layout. It's a mess. In fact, both this interchange and the one with the N4 show the motorway exits as losing their motorway status far earlier than they really do. In this case, to be fair, they are basing their information on the incorrectly placed signage.

Overall, though, this is a very sloppy effort, especially since it comes from the company that charges us loads of money for their data on the promise that it's better than what you can have for free.

Jimbo

I have noticed alot of significant errors in their current Rural PLACE maps also, i.e. they survey by air and then don't verify on ground afterwards. Quite irritating especially if you are using their products for professional reasons and spending €120+ for a single set.

Victor

Many railway bridges and level crossings in this atlas are shown incorrectly - underbridges (under the railway) shown as overbridges. This may lead to incorrect journey planning by drivers of tall vehicles and consequent bridge strikes.

ardmacha

There is no excuse for the railway bridges being wrong, in most cases these have been there for nigh on a century and a half and many maps have been produced showing them.

murphaph

The OSI are also dreadful at representing dual carriageways properly. It's not difficult.

Pgibson

Their incompetence is even more amazing when they only have to glance at Google Earth to see where the things are.

Then again they are a "State Body"...a hideaway for all the blithering idiots in the country.

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