Thanks, everyone, for your help.
Here's a quick summary:
-The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES -- http://
nces.ed.gov) focuses on primary/secondary school data.
- The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS -- http://
nces.ed.gov/ipeds/), as the name suggests, focuses on Colleges and
Universities.
- The IPEDS Dataset Cutting Tool (DCT -- http://nces.ed.gov/ipedspas/
dct/download/index.asp?Year=2004&Survey=1 ) allows you to download
college data in a CSV file containing addresses but not geographic
points. The first file listed (hd2004) is the link Martin provided
below. 6,917 rows, including the header.
- The file doesn't contain any licensing / fair use information. I
sent off a quick email to the site admin. Does anyone have a quick
link to a text file or web page? Given the .gov domain, I'm assuming
that this is licensed similarly to Census, USGS, NASA, etc. data.
- I also asked the site admin if there is a download anywhere that
contains the spatial data. Elsewhere on the site, you can search for
colleges within X miles radius of a zipcode, so I assume that there
is spatial data hanging out somewhere. Whether it is a quick download
away is another question.
- Barring a simple hyperlink appearing magically with spatial data
included, my plan is to write a quick script that will walk the file
and geocode each row using http://geocoder.us. My final question to
the site admin was whether I could repost the csv and shapefile with
the newly added spatial data at http://www.mapmap.org . (Or better
yet, send it back to them to host...)
I'll keep the list posted with the results. Thanks again for your
help. You're the wankiest. (grin)
-s
Scott Davis
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
P.S. The Robot Vegetable gets points for having a cool email handle
and trying to post a MS Excel spreadsheet twice, but it got munged
both times.
On Sep 29, 2006, at 9:45 AM, Martin May wrote:
Here's what you're looking for:
http://nces.ed.gov/ipedspas/dct/download/data/hd2004.zip
http://nces.ed.gov/ipedspas/dct/download/data/HD2004_Dict.zip
Hope that helps,
Martin
On Sep 29, 2006, at 7:45 AM, Andrew Turner wrote:
This looks like it is just Elementary & Secondary schools - and
doesn't contain Universities/Colleges?
Andrew
On 9/28/06, Sophia Parafina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Here ya go: http://nces.ed.gov/ccd/address.asp
BTW, we also sell a comprehensive database for US institutions
under our
Places2Protect data product.
sophia
Tyler Mitchell wrote:
> I'm interested in this as well, but haven't been able to find
> anything. Even a rough list to geocode against would be nice
to have.
>
> Tyler
>
> On 28-Sep-06, at 2:02 PM, Scott Davis wrote:
>
>> OK, I'm stumped. Anyone know of a good data layer showing US
colleges
>> and universities? (International would be nice as well, but I'm
>> primarily interested in domestic schools at this point.)
>>
>> I can get school district polys from the US Census (
>> http://www.census.gov/geo/www/cob/index.html ) and school
points from
>> GNIS ( http://geonames.usgs.gov/ ), but both lump in
elementary and
>> secondary schools with the colleges. Unless I'm missing
something,
>> GNIS doesn't give me a field that has a finer grain that
"school".
>>
>> Thx,
>> Scott Davis
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>
>>
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