-------- Original Message --------
Subject:        Re: Irish census data with spatial information?
Date:   Tue, 04 Dec 2007 14:27:12 -0500
From:   Zachary Christman <[log in to unmask]>
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Organization:   Clark University Graduate School of Geography
To:     Maps, Air Photo & Geospatial Systems Forum <[log in to unmask]>



Thanks to all for the links and comments; I'd feared that for-fee
sources might be the only option, but that's certainly better than no
data at all.

Cheers,
Zachary Christman

Maps-L wrote:
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> Subject:        RE: Irish census data with spatial information?
> Date:   Tue, 4 Dec 2007 07:54:45 -0000
> From:   Fleet, Christopher <[log in to unmask]>
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> Dear Zachary Christman,
>
> The Enumeration Districts for Ireland are available as vector boundaries
> (in DXF and SHP formats) from the Ordnance Survey of Ireland:
> http://www.osi.ie/mapping/digital/index.shtml
>
> There are also various resellers of the Irish ED boundaries, sometimes
> also integrated with the census data, such as Gamma Ltd (
> http://www.gamma.ie/ ) and ESBI Computing (
> http://www.esbic.ie/geobusiness/products/data_products.htm )
>
> Hope this is a little help - I am not aware of a free online source of
> these digital boundaries.
>
> Chris Fleet
> Deputy Map Curator
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Maps, Air Photo & Geospatial Systems Forum
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Angie Cope
> Sent: 03 December 2007 20:28
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> Subject: Irish census data with spatial information?
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> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject:        Irish census data with spatial information?
> Date:   Mon, 03 Dec 2007 15:08:28 -0500
> From:   Zachary Christman <[log in to unmask]>
> Organization:   Clark University Graduate School of Geography
> To:     [log in to unmask]
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> Greetings,
> a colleague of mine is in search of census information for Ireland, with
> shapefiles comparable to the TIGER files of the United States.  Is such
> a thing publicly available?  I have browsed the Central Statistics
> Office (www.cso.ie) and found tables sorted by sections of cities, but
> no delimitations of these regions.
>
> If anyone has any ideas or sources, we would be very grateful.
>
> Zachary Christman
> Clark University
>
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