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HackW/E@LinuxHotel @amapanda@en.osm.townO'Connell Street is often viewed as the “Main Street” in many Irish cities & towns. Have you ever wondered what's the longest O'Connell Street in Ireland is?
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It's in Kinsale! O'Connell Street there is 721 metres long, and it's the longest in Ireland.
№ 2 is Limerick, 687 m. № 3 Dublin: 577 m. № 4 Dungarvan: 574 m, № 5 Waterford: 425 m, № 6 Kilkee: 408 m, № 7 Ennis: 389 m, № 8 Clonmel: 362 m, № 9 Cahersiveen: 205 m, № 10 Sligo: 193 m, № 12 Ballymote: 188 m, № 13 Tullamore: 166 m, № 14 Cork: 87 m, № 15 Athlone: 71 m
I calculated these longest O'Connell Street's with this simple command:
osm-lump-ways -i ~/osm-data/ireland-and-northern-ireland.osm.pbf -o ie-o-connell.geojson -f highway -f "name~(?i).*O'Connell Street.*" --split-into-single-paths
https://github.com/amandasaurus/osm-lump-ways
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Daniel O'Connell was active in early 19th C. in Ireland, and campaigned for the legal rights of (Irish) Catholics in Ireland (then still part of the UK), earning the name “The Liberator”.
He was also pretty anti-slavery, and claimed that and Irish-Americans who were involved in that didn't get to call themselves Irish anymore. 