The latent demand for online map data for Ireland

May 30, 2005

The latent demand for online map data for Ireland

One of the great things about blogging is being able to mine your referral data for insight and knowledge. A strong trend that I'm not surprised to notice, since I've started blogging about OpenEir - the open source map of Ireland - is the latent demand among foreigners for Irish mapping data in GPS formats. A large percentage of hits on €irePreneur are now coming through various international search engines (in particular Google.de) looking for combinations of the keywords - GPS, Ireland, Waypoints, Tracklogs, Irish, Map.

May 30, 2005 11:15:18 PM | OpenEir

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Said another way, the government stifles commerce by forcing the Ordnance Survey to charge for geodetic data.

Posted by: Bernie Goldbach | May 31, 2005 at 05:53 AM

Exactly Bernie. I can only imagine the frustration of all these foreigners who'd like to plan their journey becoming coming on holiday to Ireland. I wonder how many decide to go elsewhere instead when they can find what they're looking for?

Posted by: James Corbett | May 31, 2005 at 10:13 AM

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