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Brendan edited this page Sep 12, 2018 · 9 revisions

This section of the wiki contains my own notes about available maps. Comments here about licences and use are not authoritative. Check with the individual creators for permission regarding their use.

GADM, the Database of Global Administrative areas. https://gadm.org/download_country_v3.html
Disclaimer on their website: The data are freely available for academic use and other non-commercial use. Redistribution, or commercial use is not allowed without prior permission.
Dublin is one unit. North of Ireland would have to be brought in from UK map.

The Census 2016 files appear to be here: http://census2016.geohive.ie/
This is a collaboration between CSO, OSI, and GeoHive - 'GeoHive is an initiative by Ordnance Survey Ireland to provide easy access to publically available spatial data'
The GeoHive website links to census2016.geohive
Note that SAPMAP uses ARCGIS, but Clare looks a bit crap in this.

Census 2011 boundaries: http://census.cso.ie/censusasp/saps/boundaries/ED_SA%20Disclaimer1.htm
Note however that 26 new towns were added in Census 2016. See details here https://www.cso.ie/en/census/census2016reports/census2016boundaryfiles/
This might be good for counties.
Constituency boundaries for 2007 and 2013 are also available there.
Small areas and electoral divisions are there too.
Note these are all also available on data.gov.ie here: https://data.gov.ie/dataset/census-2011-boundary-files

Good boundary data for NI available here. Their licensing info can be found here.

Info on the projection used by OSNI is here.

OSI maps can be found on data.gov.ie here: https://data.gov.ie/organization/ordnance-survey-ireland
Their own open data page is here: https://data-osi.opendata.arcgis.com/

Look at Pobal Maps, they seem to have some data on the deprivation index by small area: https://maps.pobal.ie/#/Map

A few CSO maps are also hosted at the Irish Spatial Data Exchange, though this seems to relate to Census 2011. This is developed and operated by the Marine Institute in partnership with AIRO. http://catalogue.isde.ie
Note that a link on AIRO to geoportal directs to ISDE, so they may be the same thing.

AIRO generally use Open Street Maps so would be bound by their licence, as with townlands.ie, but sometimes not.
Information on the AIRO set of maps here: http://airo.maynoothuniversity.ie/datastore

UCD LibGuides, a list of maps from around the web. http://libguides.ucd.ie/gisguide/FindSpatialData

UCD LibGuides links to autoaddress.ie, which has the Eircode shapefiles. https://www.autoaddress.ie/support/developer-centre/resources/routing-key-boundaries

Northern Ireland outlines are available here, but this might be overkill. http://osni-spatial-ni.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/7b4d7233086b459aa3b3adea8f5b0b6b_0

Townlands.ie https://www.townlands.ie/page/download/
This has counties and electoral divisions, though it does say that it's a work in progress. Disclaimer: Since this is derived from OpenStreetMap data, it's under the same licence as that. Namely the Open Data Commons Open Database License (ODbL). Consult the OpenStreetMap Copyright guide for more information.
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Deprivation data for small areas, electoral areas and counties: http://trutzhaase.eu/deprivation-index/the-2016-pobal-hp-deprivation-index-for-small-areas/
Deprivation data also seems to be available here: https://data.gov.ie/dataset/pobal-hp-deprivation-index

Disclaimer on OSI licence:
What licencing restrictions will apply?

The main goal of open data initiatives is to ensure that the restrictions on using and disseminating the data are minimal.
As part of this, any data released by OSi will be free to use as long as we are attributed as the content creator.
A standard Creative Commons licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode) applies to this data.
Under this licence you are free to copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format and remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially.
However in doing so you must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.

Outline of Northern Ireland

Taken from Office for National Statistics Open Geography Portal http://geoportal.statistics.gov.uk/datasets/d62b57faf8e14987aaabaf2416a3537f_0

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