[Talk-GB] Newark on Trent mappers

SK53 sk53.osm at gmail.com
Tue Nov 24 18:31:09 UTC 2015


Perhaps not even for those give the number of Academies (also missing is
the new academy in Dunkirk). Point in Polygons for Food Hygiene data might
help.

It would also be interesting to see what they do with multi-institution
campuses. My nephews go to school in one such place.

On 24 November 2015 at 18:15, Phil Endecott <spam_from_osmgb at chezphil.org>
wrote:

> SK53 wrote:
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>> Quick look (Nottingham, of course):
>>
>>    - Polygons look OK
>>    - Many features missing (e.g., University of Nottingham Main Campus,
>>    both sites of Dunkirk Primary School
>>    - Old features present (e.g., Elms Primary School, closed prior to
>> 2011)
>>    - Reasonably well attributed.
>>
>> At the very least it could be used to hunt for missing schools (which I've
>> done a bit of in N Scotland using Food Hygiene data).
>>
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> Having looked at OpenMap Local for Edinburgh a while ago, my impression is
> that they have used some rather primitive rules to identify "important
> buildings".  It picks up anything with "school" in the name, but fails to
> mark most of the city landmarks - things that are shown in their older
> "Street
> View" data.  So yes, it might work for schools - but not much else.
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> Cheers,  Phil.
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