Talk:Geographical centre of Ireland

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Coords links for each point[edit]

We have at least four points identified as the "centre". As the geographical centre article and the OSI blog post say, there's no magically "correct" definitive way of making this calculation. So the article shouldn't have the general coords template (with display=title) but instead have individual display=inline templates for each of the suggested points.

An issue for doing that is accurately locating point described in OSI's blog entry. Unfortunately OSI only specifies the point using their own national datum, the Irish Transverse Mercator. We'd need to translate the point they give (633015.166477, 744493.046768) into the WGS84 datum the generic coords template uses. Presumably OSI's mapping service http://map.geohive.ie/ can do this (or give us a specific enough point to get a decent point with another mapping service).

But http://map.geohive.ie/ isn't working for me - is it just broken, or is it geo-locked to IP addresses inside Ireland? -- Finlay McWalter··–·Talk 23:37, 4 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, geohive at https://webapps.geohive.ie/mapviewer/index.html is working for me - I'll take a look at the above problem tomorrow. -- Finlay McWalter··–·Talk 00:02, 5 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I think I'm done, with coords for all four points. I didn't also do the Hill of Tara, as I'm sceptical about it, and it is unsourced. It would be nice if we had a photo of the area near Castletown Geoghegan, if someone fancies a wee walk out in the countryside. -- Finlay McWalter··–·Talk 11:51, 5 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]