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Counties and towns DB

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  • 29-05-2012 11:09am
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    clusk007
    Registered Users Posts: 386 ✭✭


    Hi Everyone,

    I'm wondering where I would find a database which includes all the counties and towns in it. Something similar to the database used on this site
    http://www.pigsty.ie/

    I already used Discover Ireland to manually list many towns but a lot are missing and I'm wondering if anyone has a quick solution?

    Many thanks for your help.

    Kind regards,

    Stephen


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    cormee
    Registered Users Posts: 1,801 ✭✭✭cormee


    Not a database, but each county's Wikipedia page usually lists all the towns in it.


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    tricky D
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,700 ✭✭✭tricky D


    I have irishtownlands.csv at home. I'll upload later when I get home.


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    clusk007
    Registered Users Posts: 386 ✭✭clusk007


    tricky D wrote: »
    I have irishtownlands.csv at home. I'll upload later when I get home.

    nice one tricky, thanks


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    tricky D
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,700 ✭✭✭tricky D


    Attachments aren't working for me at the moment. PM me your email address and I'll forward the file on.


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    Jennyrose
    Registered Users Posts: 92 ✭✭Jennyrose


    I remember asking a company called Compass or Kompass for this 3 years ago. They wanted 5 grand. We declined.


    You can get them off myhome or daft if you dont mind the hassle of cleaning them up


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    PhoenixParker
    Registered Users Posts: 2,677 ✭✭✭PhoenixParker


    Try the CSO website.
    These might do the job:
    http://www.cso.ie/en/census/census2011reports/census2011boundaryfiles/


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    tricky D
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,700 ✭✭✭tricky D


    Irishtownlands.zip

    zipped csv with long and lat

    @Jennyrose 5k while expensive is quite reasonable when you consider the amount of resources required to compile it.


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    Jennyrose
    Registered Users Posts: 92 ✭✭Jennyrose


    tricky D wrote: »
    @Jennyrose 5k while expensive is quite reasonable when you consider the amount of resources required to compile it.

    You just gave it away for nothing, and with the list of everything we got from the net, we got a student to georeference the lot for 500 euro


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    clusk007
    Registered Users Posts: 386 ✭✭clusk007


    Many thanks to tricky for the list. 5k is absurd, thank God that Celtic Tiger is dead!


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    Mullins07
    Registered Users Posts: 109 ✭✭Mullins07


    The API for locally.ie provides our current list of towns and villages in counties.

    I also have lat and lng in the database (geocoded automatically using Google) but this API doesn't provide them.
    Let me know if you need them and I could add them.

    The list is fairly good although there are one or two possibly dubious localities in there, e.g. Dublin Airport. (Yes, I should probably remove that)

    It is available at http://locally.ie/api/towns.json


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