[Talk-us] School districts

[Mike Dupont]

I have been thinking about it and the best I can come up with is a relation
of type collection that contains either the areas, streets or houses
associated with the school district cachement area.

On Sun, Aug 7, 2016 at 10:07 AM, Mike Dupont <jamesmikedupont at googlemail.com
> wrote:

> Hi guys,
>
> Need advice on how to setup a OSM searchable school district lookup system
> using a static js driven site.
>
> Can we start adding the school districts for the map in the usa?
>
> For Lawrence Township they assign individual houses or streets.
>
> Here is the best map I have come up with for lawrence so far :
> https://twitter.com/h4ck3rm1k3/status/761970059430486020
>
> Basically the question is, can we store the school district information
> attached to a house number or street as needed or do we have to store it
> externally?
>
> I would like to add this information to the house or street level in osm
> or find a way to link a customer layer to osm. Basically I want to have the
> user search and find the location in osm, I have added all the house
> numbers to osm where the streets are split. So we would find a street or a
> house number, and for that number I need to return the custom data.
>
> I have setup and cleaned all the data for Lawrence Township, NJ.  We have
> a project page for mercer county here :
> https://github.com/codefortrenton/school-districts
>
> I am making progress on this topic, the way I am planning on doing it now
> is to have a geojson file with all the district areas borders for the
> township and then use a leaflet slippy map to display it on top of osm, and
> nominatim to search for house numbers, and then take the coordinates found
> at a give point to lookup the bounding parcel.
>
> The problem that I see is that the id might change over time, otherwise I
> would use the osm id. I guess I could take the streetname and house number
> and add it to a look up table.
>
> mike
>
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