But it does identify locations where there should be say 100 people living within walking distance.
I'm using search in JOSM currently and there are a fair number of villages I've picked up by zooming into locations that have a school but the rest of the map is totally blank. If I'm feeling nice I try to add in a connecting highway as well. Cheerio John On Sun, 26 Aug 2018, 12:32 pm Andrew Buck, <andrew.r.b...@gmail.com> wrote: > This won't actually give you useful data. A signifigant number of the > schools in Mali and elsewhere in Africa are not actually located in the > town they serve, but rather about 1/2 km or so outside of the town, or > about halfway between two or more towns. So a significant number > actually shouldn't be in a residential area. > > > -AndrewBuck > > > > > On 08/26/2018 11:24 AM, john whelan wrote: > > One of the nice things about schools is they have pupils which implies > > people living nearby. > > > > In Mali there appears to be an import of schools based on UNICEF data. > > amenity=school source=UNICEF > > > > Could some nice person put together an overpass of any schools that are > not > > within a landuse=residential or place=village or town please? > > > > I can do a fair bit in JOSM but I suspect an overpass set of results > which > > could be imported into JOSM would help pick out the larger unmapped > > villages. > > > > I suspect similar data might be available for other countries. > > > > Thanks John > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > HOT mailing list > > HOT@openstreetmap.org > > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot > > > _______________________________________________ > HOT mailing list > HOT@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot >
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