Hi all, I have resolved the problem with not being able to post to the list -- thanks Grant for sorting that out for me!
I have a local copy of the CD:NGI dataset, and have written software to analyse and display it, and to manipulate POIs. The display UI is pretty much designed to make exactly this task fairly painless -- I can probably zip through more than one record every 5 seconds -- so it'll be about 24 hours of work. Unfortunately I can't open-source this software, as it's my meal ticket, but I'm happy to check the school data in order to give back to the community. Regards Curtis. -----Original Message----- From: m...@martinb.za.net [mailto:m...@martinb.za.net] Sent: 11 February 2014 14:56 To: talk-za@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [OSM-Talk-ZA] KZN Schools Data I was speaking to Curtis Burisch off-list, who says that he can probably do this checking automatically on the NGI data. He says that he can not post to the list for some reason, but I am waiting to hear back from him how it goes. Otherwise I will start to undertake that manual check in small batches. I have no idea how long it will take though. I predict ages, so if people are willing to help, maybe we can co-ordinate our efforts. There are in excess of 30 000 records in total, so if we can do it (semi-)automatically, that would obviously be a major bonus. I agree that being able to feed back any errors we turn up would be good, and makes it more likely that we can potentially get access to more data. -- mtb > Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 18:25:53 +0400 > From: Gerhardus Geldenhuis <gerhardus.geldenh...@gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [OSM-Talk-ZA] KZN Schools Data > > If we can feedback to DoE that would be fantastic. I would rather see > a slower but more thorough process. Being able to contribute back to > the data source would make for a good future model of contributing > data and could encourage more contributions from other sources and > government departments. > > Regards > > > On 10 February 2014 17:39, <m...@martinb.za.net> wrote: > >> On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 11:47 AM, <m...@martinb.za.net> wrote: >>>> Hi all, >>>> >>>> I came across this the other day: >>>> >>>> http://www.education.gov.za/EMIS/EMISDownloads/tabid/466/Default.as >>>> px >>>> >>>> It is spatial data for all the schools in the country. I am not >>>> sure whether this can be used or not, but it might be useful >>>> nonetheless, especially for rural schools. I am not 100% sure what >>>> the guidelines on importing this sort of data are. >>>> >>> >>> I informally asked the Department of Basic Education (DoBE) around a >>> year ago if OpenStreetMap may use the dataset. They said we may. >>> I have also been in contact with the DoBE employee who maintains the >>> dataset, he is eager for us to feed back updates/corrections. >>> >>> The position data is unfortunately not reliably accurate for rural >>> schools. >>> >>> Gerhardus and I have a basic repo with some work in it: >>> https://github.com/gjngeldenhuis/osm-za-schools >>> The data can be loaded into QGIS (or similar), but converting the >>> data to OSM format would require work and coordination. (ogr2osm, >>> buffer excluding existing data etc) >>> >>> Regards >>> Grant >>> >> >> Hi Grant, >> >> I am wondering if this is the source of Google Map's school >> positions. >> Most of them appear to be fairly accurate, based on my wanderings in >> the sticks of KZN and the Transkei. At least, there is usually a >> school where Google Maps says there is one. Would simply (hahaha) >> checking on the aerial imagery that there is what looks like a school >> at places that the data says there is one be enough to constitute >> fact-checking for the time-being? They are usually quite visible as >> schools, in my experience. >> >> If we can find a sane way of uploading them in small batches of 15 or >> 20 schools, that sort of checking should be doable, if very >> time-consuming. >> But, at the same time, we can feed that back to the DoE. >> >> Will look at what you guys have in the github repo. >> >> Thanks. >> >> mtb >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Talk-ZA mailing list >> Talk-ZA@openstreetmap.org >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-za >> > > > > -- > Gerhardus Geldenhuis > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was > scrubbed... > URL: > > <http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-za/attachments/20140210 > /bd891684/attachment-0001.html> > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-ZA mailing list > Talk-ZA@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-za > > > End of Talk-ZA Digest, Vol 163, Issue 2 > *************************************** _______________________________________________ Talk-ZA mailing list Talk-ZA@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-za _______________________________________________ Talk-ZA mailing list Talk-ZA@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-za
