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No, I didn't try that yet. It's a good idea. You'd be doing a "match up" as opposed to a "geocode" I suppose. Rory On 04/02/16 00:09, Dave Corley wrote: > Hey Rory, > > Did you try plugging in the location data from polling stations on > data.gov.ie > > It won't give a complete picture as not all are used as polling > stations and there's likely a lot of mismatch between the names but > it might work for some for counties that have released polling > station info On 3 Feb 2016 20:44, "Rory McCann" > <r...@technomancy.org> wrote: > > Hi all, > > As as been mentioned on this list, in the UK they are doing a > quarterly project to map more schools[1] and there is a list of > schools from the Department of Education[2][3], but that only has > addresses, not location s. > > I thought I'd download that file and throw it at Nominatim and see > if we can't geocode those addresses, and have something to work > with. I thought with all the mapped townlands, that Nominatim might > be OK at some of the rural addresses. > > The results are not good. > > Nominatim returns a bounding box for a result. Here's what happens > when you try to geocode all the primary schools: > http://i.imgur.com/CFEW7Oa.p ng > > The big boxes are where nominatim was only able to get the county. > You can see that many other boxes are just around towns and > villages. Nothing more detailed than that. The map might as well be > a map of "Counties and Towns of Ireland", which is useless for > locating schools. > > An example address is "SCOIL NAOMH MICHEAL,SNEEM,CO KERRY". It's > no surprise that Nominatim cannot get any more accurate than the > village of Sneem in that case. The other school in Sneem, SCOIL > EOIN,TAHILLA,SNEEM,CO. KERRY, is hardly more accurate. > > The code is in the "ie-schools-geocode" repository on our github[4] > Run "make install primary-schools-areas.shp" to generate the data. > The geocoding is done in "geocode-single.sh"[5]. > > That image is based on the shapefile in > primary-schools-areas.zip[6]. If you don't want to generate the > data, you can just download it directly from github. By using the > Open Data plug-in you can open it in JOSM. > > Unfortunately, it looks like the schools list database isn't very > useful for mapping all the schools. > > Irish addresses, eh? > >> >> _______________________________________________ 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 > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJWsw50AAoJEOrWdmeZivv2VKgH/A7vo1c7yA5/LBAgvAmGFMxP d1QiXhLBqTCNjKKc+EJjj7d57dnyY/K57sPOKDDImv9Sp+lYGKzqh76hOpTxct2q IqXaS+C1XxCp+VIH+Oh5nPAWPnXIltHsBoyeaT2Q0YFYkZkVlY3LDhcuO5ETLfYC gcSJdx3L7NphVJOQAOIDhOvdnxQeujyeFM+sreuzO/80WdZCj+UuYlAwkKocNPOT kXgtKoyK2F6//fFFrYQsN1lbghk+5NEgd5x4Kvy3lfVOs0so5npM4eEwVPd1gGx2 BozuGEkogmAOcTlpwX1EPZ6K6cdp86ciPjdwMd0PT1IpYzNSz2HB1DhwP498WQ0= =L1/I -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Talk-ie mailing list Talk-ie@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ie