I have been thinking about it and the best I can come up with is a relation of type collection that contains either the areas, streets or houses associated with the school district cachement area.
On Sun, Aug 7, 2016 at 10:07 AM, Mike Dupont <jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com > wrote: > Hi guys, > > Need advice on how to setup a OSM searchable school district lookup system > using a static js driven site. > > Can we start adding the school districts for the map in the usa? > > For Lawrence Township they assign individual houses or streets. > > Here is the best map I have come up with for lawrence so far : > https://twitter.com/h4ck3rm1k3/status/761970059430486020 > > Basically the question is, can we store the school district information > attached to a house number or street as needed or do we have to store it > externally? > > I would like to add this information to the house or street level in osm > or find a way to link a customer layer to osm. Basically I want to have the > user search and find the location in osm, I have added all the house > numbers to osm where the streets are split. So we would find a street or a > house number, and for that number I need to return the custom data. > > I have setup and cleaned all the data for Lawrence Township, NJ. We have > a project page for mercer county here : > https://github.com/codefortrenton/school-districts > > I am making progress on this topic, the way I am planning on doing it now > is to have a geojson file with all the district areas borders for the > township and then use a leaflet slippy map to display it on top of osm, and > nominatim to search for house numbers, and then take the coordinates found > at a give point to lookup the bounding parcel. > > The problem that I see is that the id might change over time, otherwise I > would use the osm id. I guess I could take the streetname and house number > and add it to a look up table. > > mike > > -- > James Michael DuPont > Kansas Linux Fest http://kansaslinuxfest.us > Free/Libre Open Source and Open Knowledge Association of Kansas > http://openkansas.us > Member of Free Libre Open Source Software Kosova http://www.flossk.org > Saving Wikipedia(tm) articles from deletion http://SpeedyDeletion.wikia.co > m > > > > -- > James Michael DuPont > Kansas Linux Fest http://kansaslinuxfest.us > Free/Libre Open Source and Open Knowledge Association of Kansas > http://openkansas.us > Member of Free Libre Open Source Software Kosova http://www.flossk.org > Saving Wikipedia(tm) articles from deletion http://SpeedyDeletion.wikia. > com > -- James Michael DuPont Kansas Linux Fest http://kansaslinuxfest.us Free/Libre Open Source and Open Knowledge Association of Kansas http://openkansas.us Member of Free Libre Open Source Software Kosova http://www.flossk.org Saving Wikipedia(tm) articles from deletion http://SpeedyDeletion.wikia.com
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