[OSM-talk-ie] Schools project - update 3

[Rory McCann]

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Hi all,

The Dept. of Education & Skills has a website where they have all the
schools location specified ( https://www.education.ie/en/find-a-school
), but that lat/long data is not included in the downloadable schools
list and the copyright on it is not specified (i.e. it's 'all rights
reserved').

So close!

Rory

On 27/01/16 01:23, Dave Corley wrote:
> I've been following the project with great interest but there's a
> number of limiting factors preventing us doing the same at the
> moment, specifically addressing (townland project fixes that) and
> location of the schools.
> 
> The dept of ed here releases a monthly file with all schools info
> for the country but lacks location information.
> 
> However, with the onset of open data in the government, there are a
> few options that will allow for combining datasets to get what we
> need.
> 
> For example add * Dept of Education schools file (school data) To *
> Polling stations datasets (location data)
> 
> Gives a combination of school info and location together.
> 
> Sadly the polling station datasets are done at County council level
> and so far I've found only 2 released under cc-by.
> 
> More will follow, but right now that's what is holding back
> something like this in the south.
> 
> I've contacted the dept of education to ask for location data and
> was told no, with no elaboration. But that was a long while back.
> It might be worth chasing them up again
> 
> Dave On 26 Jan 2016 23:55, "Rob Nickerson"
> <rob.j.nickerson at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Yes, it's a "quarterly project" to map schools. Just a bit of fun
>> started by the Mappa Mercia community in England. The aim is to
>> inspire a few people to map by giving them an idea of what to
>> help with. Hopefully we will inspire new mappers as well. I'm
>> sharing on talk-ie in case anyone wants to get involved either as
>> a mapper or by running an initiative to help attract new mappers
>> in your area. Many of our tools can also be generalised to
>> include Republic of Ireland if there is a desire for this.
>> 
>> The project is listed at 
>> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/UK_Quarterly_Projects
>> 
>> And the progress tracker I was referring to is at 
>> http://robert.mathmos.net/osm/schools/progress/
>> 
>> Happy mapping *Rob* 
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