Mapping Ireland

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That nice Handelaar fellow has been busy lately, working on a number of projects supporting an Irish version of WriteToThem (né FaxYourMP).

The most recent one is a mapping project, to enable you to place a given address on a map, without paying an absurd amount of money for the dataset.

So, here it is: The Holy Grail of Irish Geocoding. Put in a street address and town in Ireland, and out pops a lat/long pair and a Google Map to go with. With which, we discover that my sister lives in a field.

While I think about it, here's a certain Parochial House which isn't on an island at all, but near Lisdoonvarna.

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Posted by martin on 27 January 2006
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