JOSM works fairly well. Thanks John
On Sun, 26 Aug 2018, 1:03 pm Andrew Buck, <[email protected]> wrote: > Yes, it is correct there should likely be residential areas nearby, > maybe a few km for some of them. My point was that simply doing an > "inside" query is not enough. I don't know that overpass is capable of > returning schools that are *not* nearby residential areas, only inside. > You can return schools that *are* nearby residential areas, or > residential areas near schools, but as far as I know there is no way to > query on the opposite. > > > -AndrewBuck > > > On 08/26/2018 12:00 PM, john whelan wrote: > > 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, <[email protected]> > 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 > >>> [email protected] > >>> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> HOT mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot > >> > >
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