[HOT] Tagging schools in Kenya

Nama Budhathoki namabudhathoki at gmail.com
Fri Sep 6 09:27:35 UTC 2013


Here are the tags we have used for mapping schools here in Nepal. We have
arrived to this list after discussion in the OSM community.

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Nepal/kathmandulivinglabs/exposuresurvey

Nama

On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 3:04 PM, Kate Chapman <kate at maploser.com> wrote:

> Hi Daniel,
>
> Are you familiar with the import policy?  It looks like the license is
> fine on the data, but you should still follow the policy. If you have
> questions we can certainly help.
>
> How were you planning on converting the data?
>
> Best,
>
> Kate
> On 06/09/2013 7:05 AM, "Daniel Westergren" <westis at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Good morning!
>>
>> I'm about to add primary schools in northern Kenya from the data
>> available at https://www.opendata.go.ke/Education/Kenya-Schools/uxxq-hjz6,
>> starting with Marsabit County (previously Marsabit & Moyale Districts).
>>
>> There are lots of details about each school available and I'm wondering
>> what to keep and what tags to use:
>>
>>    - *isced:level*=1 for primary schools, isced:level=3 for secondary
>>    schools
>>    - *Status of school*: Private or Public
>>    - *Sponsor of school*: Religious Organization, Central
>>    Government, Private Individual/Organization. Both public and private
>>    schools can be sponsored by regligious organizations for example.
>>    - *gender*=male|female|mixed (boys, girls, mixed)
>>    - *Day or Boarding*: day only, day & boarding, boarding
>>    - *School Institution Type*: Ordinary, Special School, Integrated
>>    - Number of *classrooms*
>>    - Boys/Girls/Teachers *toilets*
>>    - *Enrolment *(=capacity?)
>>    - Number of *teachers *(male, female, total)
>>    - *is_in*: province, district, division, location, constituency
>>    (although this is now deprecated for a new administration with county,
>>    constituency, ward).
>>
>>
>> Which details should be added? What tags should be used?
>>
>> The data is from 2007, so of course some details like enrolment, number
>> of teachers, number of toilets and classrooms, might have changed.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Daniel Westergren
>>
>>
>>
>>
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