Re: [OSM-talk-ie] Schools project - update 3
I've been following the project with great interest but there's a number of limiting factors preventing us doing the same at the moment, specifically addressing (townland project fixes that) and location of the schools. The dept of ed here releases a monthly file with all schools info for the country but lacks location information. However, with the onset of open data in the government, there are a few options that will allow for combining datasets to get what we need. For example add * Dept of Education schools file (school data) To * Polling stations datasets (location data) Gives a combination of school info and location together. Sadly the polling station datasets are done at County council level and so far I've found only 2 released under cc-by. More will follow, but right now that's what is holding back something like this in the south. I've contacted the dept of education to ask for location data and was told no, with no elaboration. But that was a long while back. It might be worth chasing them up again Dave On 26 Jan 2016 23:55, "Rob Nickerson" wrote: > Yes, it's a "quarterly project" to map schools. Just a bit of fun started > by the Mappa Mercia community in England. The aim is to inspire a few > people to map by giving them an idea of what to help with. Hopefully we > will inspire new mappers as well. I'm sharing on talk-ie in case anyone > wants to get involved either as a mapper or by running an initiative to > help attract new mappers in your area. Many of our tools can also be > generalised to include Republic of Ireland if there is a desire for this. > > The project is listed at > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/UK_Quarterly_Projects > > And the progress tracker I was referring to is at > http://robert.mathmos.net/osm/schools/progress/ > > Happy mapping > *Rob* > ___ > Talk-ie mailing list > Talk-ie@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ie > ___ Talk-ie mailing list Talk-ie@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ie
Re: [OSM-talk-ie] Schools project - update 3
Yes, it's a "quarterly project" to map schools. Just a bit of fun started by the Mappa Mercia community in England. The aim is to inspire a few people to map by giving them an idea of what to help with. Hopefully we will inspire new mappers as well. I'm sharing on talk-ie in case anyone wants to get involved either as a mapper or by running an initiative to help attract new mappers in your area. Many of our tools can also be generalised to include Republic of Ireland if there is a desire for this. The project is listed at https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/UK_Quarterly_Projects And the progress tracker I was referring to is at http://robert.mathmos.net/osm/schools/progress/ Happy mapping *Rob* ___ Talk-ie mailing list Talk-ie@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ie
Re: [OSM-talk-ie] Schools project - update 3
On Tuesday 26 January 2016 19:38:36 Rob Nickerson wrote: > 6. Northern Ireland still needs some work > If you map in Northern Ireland and want to get involved please do. Each > extra school mapped there will help lift it off the bottom of the tracker. > We can also look at doing some initiatives in NI if the local community > want this. Let us know Hi Rob, Its this some kind of project? Lift it off the bottom of what tracker? ___ Talk-ie mailing list Talk-ie@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ie
[OSM-talk-ie] Schools project - update 3
A third update on the quarterly project. 0. The what project? http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/UK_Quarterly_Projects 1. Open Data Manchester Following a tweet Open Data Manchester have asked whether anyone can go and show them how to map. Looks like their next meeting is Monday February 1st, 6.30 – 8.30pm. Any volunteers? 2. Edits continue at pace. For those adding #OSMSchools to their changeset comments (sorry no way to go back and add it if you forget) we reached a high of 258 changesets on 18th Jan. The map is starting to look well covered (although some gaps missingso please continue to use this in your changesets). See http://resultmaps.neis-one.org/osm-changesets?comment=OSMschool#6/53.495/-3.549 3. 175 people have done 5351 edits Amazing numbers measured by Harry's tracker. Looks like Uganda has joined the project too. It would be great if someone could turn the CSV linked data at the bottom of the tracker into a daily chart. See http://harrywood.dev.openstreetmap.org/diffreader/schools/ 4. HS and ZE are 100% complete! Wow! The HS (Outer Hebrides) and ZE (Lerwick) postcodes are complete. Thanks go to OpenStreetMapper seumas. Many other postcodes (with more schools within them ;-) ) are close to this now too http://robert.mathmos.net/osm/schools/progress/ 5. Nodes converted to ways Following lot's of data clean up we are nearing 80% of schools mapped as land areas rather than simple points. We should hit this in the next couple of days. 6. Northern Ireland still needs some work If you map in Northern Ireland and want to get involved please do. Each extra school mapped there will help lift it off the bottom of the tracker. We can also look at doing some initiatives in NI if the local community want this. Let us know :-) 7. Blogs and video Please keep up the blogging and tweeting. It would be great if we could attract some new mappers (a how to map schools video would be great if you have time to do this). If you don't run a blog then I can let you post to http://mappa-mercia.org Happy mapping *Rob* ___ Talk-ie mailing list Talk-ie@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ie
