Hi all, These might fill the need
https://data.gov.ie/dataset/primary-schools https://data.gov.ie/dataset/post-primary-schools If there are folks here with the skills, a schools mapping task could be coordinated through maproulette. Dave On Tue, Dec 6, 2016 at 1:19 PM, Rory McCann <r...@technomancy.org> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 06/12/16 05:44, Colm Moore wrote: > > Someone, it might have been Rory looked at geocoding all schools, > > but the data available was, err, of poor quality. > > Yep, that was me. In February this year I looked into it[1]. I tried > to geocode the addresses. But Irish addresses are very hard to > geocode. Especially when the address is "St. Whatever School, Sneem, > Co. Kerry". > > > daft.ie have issues their (post-primary) schools report: > > http://www.daft.ie/report/daft-schools-report-2016.pdf using data > > from the Department of Education, so someone seems to have gone to > > the effort of mapping them properly. > > The Dept of Education already has a webpage which has the location of > schools[2]. I suspect Daft are using that. It's just that that page > has no copyright information, which means it's "all rights reserved", > and not usable for us in OSM. It's possible the location of the school > is based off OSi maps or something. > > If someone wants to ask the Dept. Ed. to open that data, please go > ahead! :) > > [1] https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/rorym/diary/37887 > [2] http://www.education.ie/en/Find-a-School/ > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) > > iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJYRrrpAAoJEOrWdmeZivv2KpUIALK0RltTULA6P5GY1J5jmfCZ > csFJm6jmIljMwRlZy9ESRs4wj8OQywhvDQjNr6EIX9uCS5UQrJh4mdR370/cX/5C > DkDO5w4tW5cuIV5E2wzG/J/dkEAqxqztyfZb/kZBAYF4wed+zwAvggtpnvl1UTKf > 8RsclB+ljY7x0K1hpx+M/c2TEE778ADyx2mlnu52gwjs4n0IsVFoAI/mmrvXjWJU > DlIiQeZMFxnrbUpWLC2SMS7zHETz6wjqQ6Yj3ASt5mrk7tKPyp+feAA4m/9IEsE5 > bHVKv64vuywV4+RtEb5ecRtxew/RKzRPJEljF9MRRIzX0TMnFkicYVK/bakhOFY= > =BP8r > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > 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
