Re: [OSM-talk-ie] Schools project - update 3

2016-01-27 Thread Rory McCann
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, The Dept. of Education & Skills has a website where they have all the schools location specified ( https://www.education.ie/en/find-a-school ), but that lat/long data is not included in the downloadable schools list and the copyright on it is

[OSM-talk-ie] Schools project - update 3

2016-01-26 Thread Rob Nickerson
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,

Re: [OSM-talk-ie] Schools project - update 3

2016-01-26 Thread Killyfole and District Development Association
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

Re: [OSM-talk-ie] Schools project - update 3

2016-01-26 Thread Rob Nickerson
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

Re: [OSM-talk-ie] Schools project - update 3

2016-01-26 Thread Dave Corley
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