PDVerse wrote: » To summarise our main disagreements The issue isn't really whether the CSO is happy. It's whether the potential users of the CSO's statistics are happy. The issue I highlighted relating to the disparity in routing key area size, might not have been noticed yet by those potential users. But, that doesn't mean the problem doesn't exist. The problem doesn't exist.
The issue isn't really whether the CSO is happy. It's whether the potential users of the CSO's statistics are happy. The issue I highlighted relating to the disparity in routing key area size, might not have been noticed yet by those potential users. But, that doesn't mean the problem doesn't exist.
That suggests the real reason for not following the same model is some thing else, and surely enough the desire to monetise the data and disallow any significant usage outside of a commercial model, is a much better explanation This claim is false.
That suggests the real reason for not following the same model is some thing else, and surely enough the desire to monetise the data and disallow any significant usage outside of a commercial model, is a much better explanation
We agree that this tragedy will be averted when Google (and subsequently Bing Maps and others) have integrated Eircode fully. There really isn't any more to be said until we can evaluate the Google integration, which is currently in beta testing.
Bray Head wrote: » @plodder CSO produce many more egregious disaggregations. For example they calculate average personal income for each of the counties or Leitrim and Roscommon but do not break down the county of Dublin at all!
plodder wrote: » Bray Head wrote: » @plodder CSO produce many more egregious disaggregations. For example they calculate average personal income for each of the counties or Leitrim and Roscommon but do not break down the county of Dublin at all! That was the same with house price statistics before. Counties were the main geographic unit that people were familiar with and which covered the entire state.
Bray Head wrote: » Are you suggesting that the CSO used to provide county-level breakdowns of house price stats?
neiljung wrote: » Eircode search now working in Google Maps!
