Hi, At a time of great policy change like this, it would be hard to get every single school in the UK mapped, but I could try for my local area.
Usually, new schools open in September and old ones close in July, which might help. Antje https://openstreetmap.org/user/Amaroussi > On 2 Jan 2016, at 12:51, Brian Prangle <bpran...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Happy New Year! (and Happy New Mapping Year!) The first Quarterly Project for > 2016 is now under way and is Schools. There are really two strands to this > project. > > The first is to remotely (armchai)r map and get an increase in coverage of > the number of schools > > The latest government data is for January 2012 which shows 24,372 schools in > England (including nursery schools, state-funded primary schools, > state-funded secondary schools, special schools, pupil referral units and > independent schools.) > > For Wales that data is from January 2015 : 13 Nursery Schools; 1,330 primary > schools;6 middle schools;207 secondary schools;and 37 special schools. > > For Scotland data is from September2011 and shows 2,553 pre-schools, 2,081 > primary schools, 367 secondary schools and 158 special schools. > > For Northern Ireland data is from October 2015 and shows 96 nursery schools; > 827 primary schools; 202 secondary schools and 39 special schools. > Additionally there are 14 independent schools and 1 hospital school. > > That gives a total of 32,318 schools. Taginfo shows 27,191 schools which is > 84.1% coverage in OSM. However 6,348 are represented as nodes only. It would > be great to have these as polygons and associated buildings. It would also be > great to have close to 100% coverage. > > This data comes from a cursory web search. If anyone has better or newer > data, it's welcome. > > Schools can be remotely mapped (armchair mapping) by using Ordnance Survey > OpenData StreetView(OSSV) data where school buildings are individually > identified (but not always named). This data needs to be cross-checked with > Bing aerial imagery which can often show OSSV schools as either having been > demolished with a resultant brownfield site or housing redevelopment, or with > buildings having been demolished and rebuilt in a new configuration. Often > where a school site has ceased to exist, a completely new school site has > been constructed nearby. > > The second strand is for those who prefer surveying: existing school names > change (e.g change to Academy Status, amalgamations); there will schools in > OSM with no name, and with the advent of free schools, new ones will be > appearing constantly. > > So there's plenty to do over the next few months! > > There's a progress table > <https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1G9KXfp4Ho3fVROO9MxotcYTydl9CEXB_fi5ko2pM5Kc/edit#gid=0> > already established. You'll need to access the sheet marked Schools > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-GB mailing list > Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
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