[Talk-GB] Newark on Trent mappers

[SK53]

Thanks for that. I had a feeling that there was an OpenData set of schools.

Perhaps we can persuade Brian & Rob to make schools the next quarterly
project.

Jerry

On 25 November 2015 at 08:42, Christian Ledermann <
christian.ledermann at gmail.com> wrote:

> maybe the edubase data could help with this
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> also it could be used to enrich the OS Data with address, telefon number
> etc.
>
> for a quick look at the data edubase provides:
> https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/schools-in-england
>
> As every school in edubase comes with a postcode it should be
> reasonably easy to correlate the OS and EduBase data, and then weed
> out closed schools
>
>
>
> On 24 November 2015 at 18:31, SK53 <sk53.osm at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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:
> >>>
> >>> 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).
> >>
> >>
> >> 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.
> >>
> >>
> >> Cheers,  Phil.
> >>
> >>
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