If we can feedback to DoE that would be fantastic. I would rather see a slower but more thorough process. Being able to contribute back to the data source would make for a good future model of contributing data and could encourage more contributions from other sources and government departments.
Regards On 10 February 2014 17:39, <m...@martinb.za.net> wrote: > On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 11:47 AM, <m...@martinb.za.net> wrote: >>> Hi all, >>> >>> I came across this the other day: >>> http://www.education.gov.za/EMIS/EMISDownloads/tabid/466/Default.aspx >>> >>> It is spatial data for all the schools in the country. I am not sure >>> whether >>> this can be used or not, but it might be useful nonetheless, especially >>> for >>> rural schools. I am not 100% sure what the guidelines on importing this >>> sort >>> of data are. >>> >> >> I informally asked the Department of Basic Education (DoBE) around a >> year ago if OpenStreetMap may use the dataset. They said we may. >> I have also been in contact with the DoBE employee who maintains the >> dataset, he is eager for us to feed back updates/corrections. >> >> The position data is unfortunately not reliably accurate for rural >> schools. >> >> Gerhardus and I have a basic repo with some work in it: >> https://github.com/gjngeldenhuis/osm-za-schools >> The data can be loaded into QGIS (or similar), but converting the data >> to OSM format would require work and coordination. (ogr2osm, buffer >> excluding existing data etc) >> >> Regards >> Grant >> > > Hi Grant, > > I am wondering if this is the source of Google Map's school positions. > Most of them appear to be fairly accurate, based on my wanderings in the > sticks of KZN and the Transkei. At least, there is usually a school where > Google Maps says there is one. Would simply (hahaha) checking on the aerial > imagery that there is what looks like a school at places that the data says > there is one be enough to constitute fact-checking for the time-being? They > are usually quite visible as schools, in my experience. > > If we can find a sane way of uploading them in small batches of 15 or 20 > schools, that sort of checking should be doable, if very time-consuming. > But, at the same time, we can feed that back to the DoE. > > Will look at what you guys have in the github repo. > > Thanks. > > mtb > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-ZA mailing list > Talk-ZA@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-za > -- Gerhardus Geldenhuis
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