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Database of Irish town?

Frosty1980 · 2013-06-28 07:40:39

Hi, Does anyone know where I could get a databse or .csv file of all Irish towns, villages along with the gps locations? Developing new website and can't find it on the web. Thanks

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28-06-2013 8:40am

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Frosty1980

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Hi,

Does anyone know where I could get a databse or .csv file of all Irish towns, villages along with the gps locations? Developing new website and can't find it on the web.

Thanks

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#2 28-06-2013 11:34am
PrzemoF

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The data is on openstreetmap.org, however I'm not sure how easy/hard would be to convert it to the format you need.

Some info here: https://thepekka.wordpress.com/2012/06/30/openstreetmap-data-extraction/

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#3 28-06-2013 11:46am
MOH

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Pretty sure someone posted one on this forum a year or two ago

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OK, it was actually 5 years ago!
Post #12 might help

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#4 28-06-2013 12:14pm
Manach

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Very offhand, the R toolset has various mapping add-ons, and one of these was Ireland + County locations with geographic info.

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#5 29-06-2013 3:09pm
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Not a public database as far as I know, but there is http://logainm.ie/

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#6 29-06-2013 9:04pm
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This might help

http://download.geonames.org/export/dump/

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#7 30-06-2013 8:05pm
zachaus

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GeoDirectory from An Post has all this information

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#8 03-07-2013 9:18am
MOH

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zachaus wrote: »

GeoDirectory from An Post has all this information

Not really. It's got latitude and longitude for individual addresses, but there's no easy way of extracting from that the location of a town centre. Plus I imagine the full data set would cost a fair bit.

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