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A National Land Cover service for the Republic of Ireland indicating whatever is physically present on the Earth’s surface, whether this is natural vegetation, freshwater or non-living surfaces. The land cover of the Republic of Ireland is incredibly diverse, including forestry,
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RailNetworkSegments, have both a GDF1 and GDF2 representation. A GDF1 is required for all railways. GDF2 is required for Standard (mainline) railways only.Following European standards, a Network is derived from centreline data. A Network consists of a set of specified points, lin
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A permanent roofed construction, currently or formerly intended for shelter. A building under construction is included as a building, if it is apparent that, on completion, it will meet the definition for a building. A structure that is identifiable as having once been a building
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Water Single Stream Line is used to represent a stream that is less than 2m wide. It is polyline geometry.
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A Building Group object links together Buildings that belong to a named terrace. The Buildings must be physically connected such that one BuildingGroup's polygon geometry equals the union of two or more contiguous Building polygons.
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A GDF2 is a notional line indicating the centerline of a Way excepting that in the case of a dual carriageway or motorway, it indicates the central median between opposing carriageways and in the case of a roundabout, it deviates from following the centreline around the roundabou
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A Water Point is a point that marks either a source point or an end point (either at a sink point or where the Water object enters the sea) of a Water Network Segment, a point along the Water Network Segment at which there is a transition, or a point along the Water Network Segme
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A Way Point is a point that marks either an end point of a Way Network Segment, or a point on the Way Network Segment at which there is a transition, or a point at which there is a junction with another Way Network Segment of the same GDF level.
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A Site is a large contiguous area encompassing multiple objects that are related in some way. A Site may cover one geographic area only.
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Locales, permit the use of virtual extents. Many Locale objects cover areas that do not have a defined outline, such as named bays, mountain ranges and districts. In some cases a Locale may have a mix of clearly defined and undefined extents
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Water objects describe all water bodies currently captured by Tailte Éireann. These include flowing and non-flowing, natural and man-made water bodies, which include River, Stream, Lake, Pond, Drain and Reservoir.
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A Rail Point is a point that indicates either an end point of a railway line, or a point at which there is a transition or junction between railway lines. A Rail Point also denotes a Mile Post, as a vertex, on a GDF2 RailNetworkSegment only.
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Way objects represent all drivable and walkable roads and paths. All Ways from Motorway to Fifth Class have polygon geometry; some lower class roads may also have polygon geometry. The Way Skin-of-the-Earth requirements apply only to Ways polygon representation. Ways objects also
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The four local authorities in the Dublin Region (comprising Fingal County Council, South Dublin County Council, Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council and Dublin City Council) provide combined quarterly data on new residential planning permissions and housing construction activity
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This dataset is a digital representation of the HWM pre 2019. The latest dataset is High Water Mark - National Water Marks - Ungeneralised – 2024, see link:https://data-osi.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/osi::high-water-mark-national-water-marks-ungeneralised-2024/about
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