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As part of the Ireland chapter of OpenStreetMap a few years ago I set up a tileserver and a map frontend that defaulted to showing place names in the Irish language (Gaeilge).Recently I spent some time improving both these services. Vector Tileserver Previously the default style was named ‘ga’ and available at: https://tileserver.openstreetmap.ie/styles/gaHowever, last weekend… Read more »
Using gpx.studio I was able to upload multiple GPX files (using File > Open), then right-click on one of the track tabs and choose ‘Select All‘. Then on the tools on the left choose ‘Merge items together’. I opted for ‘Merge the contents and keep the traces disconnected’ then choose the ‘Merge selection’ button. This… Read more »
Using the GPX tracks for Timmy’s cycles around Ireland we can determine the total distances travelled. Route Distance (km) Distance (miles) Wild Atlantic Way 3438 2136 Ancient East 1178 732 Northern Ireland 1458 905 All Ireland 6074 3773 Unsurprisingly the elevation gain and loss was more-or-less equal.
Graphhopper is an excellent online tool for creating a GPX track between two places or coordinates. Search for the source and destination, adjust the markers if necessary and then use the GPX button to download
We received a request on how someone might display a map of the townlands in County Down. One way to display that map is using Overpass Turbo. The query to display the data is: The result is quite big so go easy on the Overpass servers.
Based on an enquiry from a visitor to the OSM Ireland website I had a little play with the OSM data for Ireland to see if I could offer advice on how to generate shape files of townland areas. Below is the process I used and it can be adapted for other administrative boundaries such… Read more »
If troubleshooting inside a container that does not have curl installed and also doesn’t permit installing then an option is to use a curl binary that has been statically compiled. There are a list of curl binaries here download one matching the arch of your container then extract it with e.g. Then copy the extract… Read more »
These notes describe loading VPC Flow Logs in parquet format into DuckDB for visual analysis in Apache Superset. I had never used any of these components before but was able to visualise the addresses using the most bandwidth. If time permits I may also look at ntopng or openobserve to see if they allow loading… Read more »
Dean Mac Cu Uladh hosted a walk along the towpath and pointed out some of the native flowering species. Photographs of just three are below. Stitch Wort Marsh Marigold Dog Rose
Wee Jiri got back to me. The message is shown below but for the TLDR; In the paragraph labelled as ‘1’ Jiri & Jadek have redefined the meaning of ‘perpetual’ which you could look up for yourself. In the dictionary I checked I found words such as ‘endless’, ‘uninterrupted’ and ‘never ending’. However MapTiler have… Read more »
