Many many thanks to Robert for coming up with this tool so quickly: it's matching might be a bit rough but it's a great help in finding what needs mapping where
regards Brian On 3 January 2016 at 18:43, Robert Whittaker (OSM lists) < robert.whittaker+...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 2 January 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.) > > Since most of the code could be re-used from what I already do for > Post Offices, I've put together a quick comparison tool to compare the > Edubase data for England with what's currently in OSM: > http://robert.mathmos.net/osm/schools/progress/ > > It's a bit rough at the moment. I'm currently only using the data for > England, and only fetching OSM *ways* tagged with amenity=school . > There are no markers on the slippy map yet either, and the matching > process is rather basic. With luck, I'll have some time to make some > improvements in the next couple of weeks. In the mean time, the lists > of non-matching items will hopefully still be useful to people. > > One caveat though -- I'm not completely sure that the Edubase data is > (or should be) available under an OSM-compatible Licence (the OGL in > this case). In particular the addresses and postcodes may be tainted > by AddressBase. Until the licence is confirmed, we should avoid using > Edubase data directly to add or edit Schools in OSM. There should be > sufficient other sources available though. > > Best wishes, > > Robert. > > -- > Robert Whittaker > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-GB mailing list > Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb >
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