With so many amazing walks and trails for you to explore throughout Ireland, now’s the time to brush up on your map reading skills. When hiking or exploring isolated trails, you can’t rely on Google Maps and GPS, which is why it’s so important to know how to read a paper map. Here are the […]
South Mayo and Clew Bay, Croagh Patrick and Clare Island maps added to popular OSi Adventure Series The official launch of Ordnance Survey Ireland’s (OSi) newest Adventure Series Maps took place this week (Thursday, 21 June 2018) in Westport House. The two new additions to the hugely popular Series cover popular tourist destinations; South Mayo, and Clew […]
Getting an aerial perspective was once an expensive undertaking for businesses and local authorities. However, today, we can much more easily obtain aerial imageryfrom different sources both online and offline. A popular offline option is to use drones to fly over an area and capture an aerial image. People often refer to other online mapping services […]
The art of map making has come a long way, mainly thanks to aerial photography. Early map preparation was a long and painstaking process. Cartographers set out by foot to literally walk the land and draw as they went. In the 1940’s as technologies evolved, cartographers began to use 5 lens cameras and instruments called […]
LiDAR is an acronym for Light Detection and Ranging. Sonar uses sound waves to work out the distance between things. Radar uses radio waves in the same way. LiDAR uses light from a laser to measure the distance, elevation and contours of an area. How is the LiDAR data recorded? LiDAR can be recorded from […]
James Joyce’s love affair with Dublin is well-known. The city is featured throughout his famous works but nowhere more so than Ulysses. Joyce’s greatest literary work follows Leopold Bloom, as he journeys across Dublin on the 16th of June. Each Bloomsday, thousands of fans recreate Bloom’s steps across the city and visit the famous sites […]