[OSM-talk-ie] How you can improve the mapping of Irish schools

[Rory McCann]

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Hi all,

The UK community has a current quarterly project to improve mapping of
schools. Despite the Dept of Education schools list not being very
useful[1][2], there are still things we can do in Ireland to improve our
mapping of schools.

Taginfo tells us that there are 651 schools in Ireland tagged as a node,
not an area. These can be replaced with a more accurate area. This is
one thing they are doing in the UK. Mapzen explain more[3].

You can use this Overpass Query to get all schools-mapped-as-nodes:
http://url.ie/z9cy Export it to JOSM and use the JOSM ToDo plugin to
work through them and map them like in the Mapzen link.

Taginfo tell us about other important details missing from many
schools[4], which can fill in from the Dept of Edu. list:

 * Only 1% of schools have a gender - Find them with http://url.ie/z9d0
 * Only 1% have religion tag set - Find them with http://url.ie/z9d1
 * Only 1% have denomination set.


Happy Mapping!

Rory



[1]
https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-ie/2016-February/001429.html
[2] http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/rorym/diary/37887
[3] https://mapzen.com/blog/targeted-editing-school-polygons
[4] http://taginfo.openstreetmap.ie/tags/amenity=school#combinations

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