[HOT] Overpass and schools in Mali

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

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Re: [HOT] Overpass and schools in Mali

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

Re: [HOT] Overpass and schools in Mali

JOSM works fairly well. Thanks John On Sun, 26 Aug 2018, 1:03 pm Andrew Buck, 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

Re: [HOT] Overpass and schools in Mali

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

Re: [HOT] Overpass and schools in Mali

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