[HOT] Overpass and schools in Mali

[john whelan]

JOSM works fairly well.

Thanks John

On Sun, 26 Aug 2018, 1:03 pm Andrew Buck, <andrew.r.buck at gmail.com> wrote:

> Yes, it is correct there should likely be residential areas nearby,
> maybe a few km for some of them.  My point was that simply doing an
> "inside" query is not enough.  I don't know that overpass is capable of
> returning schools that are *not* nearby residential areas, only inside.
> You can return schools that *are* nearby residential areas, or
> residential areas near schools, but as far as I know there is no way to
> query on the opposite.
>
>
> -AndrewBuck
>
>
> On 08/26/2018 12:00 PM, john whelan wrote:
> > But it does identify locations where there should be say 100 people
> living
> > within walking distance.
> >
> > I'm using search in JOSM currently and there are a fair number of
> villages
> > I've picked up by zooming into locations that have a school but the rest
> of
> > the map is totally blank.
> >
> > If I'm feeling nice I try to add in a connecting highway as well.
> >
> > Cheerio John
> >
> > On Sun, 26 Aug 2018, 12:32 pm Andrew Buck, <andrew.r.buck at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >> This won't actually give you useful data.  A signifigant number of the
> >> schools in Mali and elsewhere in Africa are not actually located in the
> >> town they serve, but rather about 1/2 km or so outside of the town, or
> >> about halfway between two or more towns. So a significant number
> >> actually shouldn't be in a residential area.
> >>
> >>
> >> -AndrewBuck
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On 08/26/2018 11:24 AM, john whelan wrote:
> >>> One of the nice things about schools is they have pupils which implies
> >>> people living nearby.
> >>>
> >>> In Mali there appears to be an import of schools based on UNICEF data.
> >>> amenity=school source=UNICEF
> >>>
> >>> Could some nice person put together an overpass of any schools that are
> >> not
> >>> within a landuse=residential or place=village or town please?
> >>>
> >>> I can do a fair bit in JOSM but I suspect an overpass set of results
> >> which
> >>> could be imported into JOSM would help pick out the larger unmapped
> >>> villages.
> >>>
> >>> I suspect similar data might be available for other countries.
> >>>
> >>> Thanks John
> >>>
> >>>
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