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Oileáin Development 2 years 2 months ago #17783

  • David Walsh
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The wonders of modern science ………..

Perhaps the biggest innovation with Project Oileáin since the publications of 2004 / 2014 has just been completed at http://www.oileain.org/. All of the 1,500++ Grid References in the on-line text on screen are now hyperlinks that take the viewer directly to the island, pier, parking place, beach, headland or whatever.

In my view this development will, for some people, shift primacy from the hardcopy published book firmly to the on screen softcopy version.

Great thanks are due to Eoin Flood of East Coast Kayakers for conceiving and executing the plan. I am hoping he might explain this stuff in his own way in his own time. He does this for a living, its his day job, but this one got his imagination really tweaked ………….. Thank you Eoin.

All I can do is gaze and gaze and still my wonder grows ……………….

Both Sean Pierce and Eoin himself each have ideas how to push the envelope even further but for now, I am delighted with what I see before me. Any Pilot or Sailing Directions have always before this had to involve a map or chart immediately to hand. Now it seems to me that, there or thereabouts, trip planning can be carried out on screen, almost in isolation. I dread to think of kayakers with a smartphone App open on deck, but maybe in the campsite the night before, planning the next day, a pin dropped at the target destination? Isn’t that what young people do?

I am glad or at least I think I’m glad that wasn’t an option back in the day!

It should be way easier for everyone to report added information, updates, corrections, mistakes and misunderstandings going forward.

Main thing is, take a look and see for yourself.
http://www.oileain.org/
then "View/Download"
http://www.oileain.org/index.php/viewdownload-oileain/

DWalsh
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Oileáin Development 2 years 2 months ago #17820

  • Jonathan Ryder
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This is amazing!!

Makes what was already a fantastic resource even more fantastic!

Thanks and congratulations, David, Sean and Eoin.
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Oileáin Development 2 years 2 months ago #17835

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This is really well done. I'm impressed.
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