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" <rob.j.nicker...@gmail.com> 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
