Google Maps UK

davej

http://maps.google.co.uk/

Good maps of Ireland's major cities, the service locator facility appears to only work for the UK at the moment.

davej

s8n

excellent link thanks

vinnyfitz

Brilliant!

I wish I had that yesterday!

Edit: I see for example that Athlone got mapped but Mullingar did not - yet!

I can envisage motions of condemnation at Town Council meetings across the country in coming weeks

enterprise

great maps. Handy reference to have.

Andrew Duffy

The data comes from here, I think: http://www.ie.map24.com/

The motorways and national roads are quite badly out of date, but it can't be easy to keep up.
Since it's made from satellite images, every stretch of dual carriageway is marked, however short, and the width of wide roads is obvious - just like the London A-Z. There's a huge amount of apallingly destructive aborted road plans blotting Dublin that aren't obvious from the OS maps, and I've always suspected that DCC has final say on what roads are marked as dual to disguise the excesses of its previous incarnations.

daymobrew

For Dublin maps I use the Journey Planner at http://www.dto.ie.
Same backend (mapflow.com on Merrion Square) that MyHome.ie uses.

Victor

Andrew Duffy wrote:

Since it's made from satellite images, every stretch of dual carriageway is marked, however short, and the width of wide roads is obvious - just like the London A-Z. There's a huge amount of apallingly destructive aborted road plans blotting Dublin that aren't obvious from the OS maps, and I've always suspected that DCC has final say on what roads are marked as dual to disguise the excesses of its previous incarnations.

Examples?

Andrew Duffy

The Inner Tangent was a plan to build an inner bypass of the central area from Leeson Street to Dorset Street (i.e., to get from the wealthy Southern suburbs along the N11 dual carriageway to the newly-built M1 to the airport) by demolishing Stephen's Green South, Cuffe Street, Kevin Street and Dean Street; building the Coombe Relief Road; demolishing Ardee Street, Pimlico, Thomas Court and Bridgefoot Street; replacing the Queen Street Bridge and demolishing Queen Street itself; demolishing North King Street and building a set of radiating dual carriageways along Nicholas Street to Clanbrassil Street, Cork Street to Dolphin's Barn and beyond, Church Street, Parnell Street to Summerhill.
Another plan existed to build a small loop from High Street through Bridge Street and across a new bridge to Church Street.
Looking at an OS map of the city gives no indication of the massive swathe of destruction along these routes, but walking them is sickening. The Google map data shows the numerour sections of dual that were built, but it doesn't show where buildings were demolished and no road built (Bridge Street, North King Street) - for that, the aerial view on myhome.ie is perfect.

There's a bit of Senate debate discussing the destruction here.

The Sisco Kid

Just noticed that the satellite imagery for Google Maps has been updated and you can now see most of North Dublin as well as some parts of Co. Wexford, Cork, West Cork, Kerry & Achill Island (don't ask why!)

Chalk

cool,
too bad my house is under a cloud

daymobrew

If you look at the Phoenix Park (near Ashtown Gate) you can see a stage being set up, presumably for the Robbie Williams concert.

spacetweek

daymobrew wrote:

If you look at the Phoenix Park (near Ashtown Gate) you can see a stage being set up, presumably for the Robbie Williams concert.

How did you zoom in that far? It didn't work for me.

Andrew Duffy wrote:

The motorways and national roads are quite badly out of date, but it can't be easy to keep up.

It looks like they've refreshed their data. Even the M50 Sandyford-M11 section is in now.

Bill McH

daymobrew wrote:

For Dublin maps I use the Journey Planner at http://www.dto.ie.
Same backend (mapflow.com on Merrion Square) that MyHome.ie uses.

I've been trying use the DTO Journey Planner, but I keep getting the following message:

This route could not be successfully determined. Please try a different route.

This happens even if I try to use the landmarks on the page as start and end points for the journey.

Any ideas? Could it just be that the system is currently out of action?

murphaph

Bill McH wrote:

Any ideas? Could it just be that the system is currently out of action?

It's just down Bill. That site tends to go down every so often, perhaps they're updating the streets and that.

dowlingm

Multimap is superior for smaller towns and rural area roads and rail lines, though no photos. That's quite sad as I like google maps but sometimes I need to look outside M50 or the South Ring Road!

For North America the coverage is very good.

Bill McH

murphaph wrote:

It's just down Bill. That site tends to go down every so often, perhaps they're updating the streets and that.

Thanks for that, Philip

WezzyB

You can download Google Earth (http://earth.google.com/) for your PC its a bit more powerful than the web interface (http://maps.google.com/), you can also mark in your own, Placemarks which is a bit of fun doing a flyover certain parts of dublin.