Hey Rory, Did you try plugging in the location data from polling stations on data.gov.ie
It won't give a complete picture as not all are used as polling stations and there's likely a lot of mismatch between the names but it might work for some for counties that have released polling station info On 3 Feb 2016 20:44, "Rory McCann" <[email protected]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi all, > > As as been mentioned on this list, in the UK they are doing a quarterly > project to map more schools[1] and there is a list of schools from the > Department of Education[2][3], but that only has addresses, not location > s. > > I thought I'd download that file and throw it at Nominatim and see if we > can't geocode those addresses, and have something to work with. I > thought with all the mapped townlands, that Nominatim might be OK at > some of the rural addresses. > > The results are not good. > > Nominatim returns a bounding box for a result. Here's what happens when > you try to geocode all the primary schools: http://i.imgur.com/CFEW7Oa.p > ng > > The big boxes are where nominatim was only able to get the county. You > can see that many other boxes are just around towns and villages. > Nothing more detailed than that. The map might as well be a map of > "Counties and Towns of Ireland", which is useless for locating schools. > > An example address is "SCOIL NAOMH MICHEAL,SNEEM,CO KERRY". It's no > surprise that Nominatim cannot get any more accurate than the village of > Sneem in that case. The other school in Sneem, SCOIL > EOIN,TAHILLA,SNEEM,CO. KERRY, is hardly more accurate. > > The code is in the "ie-schools-geocode" repository on our github[4] Run > "make install primary-schools-areas.shp" to generate the data. The > geocoding is done in "geocode-single.sh"[5]. > > That image is based on the shapefile in primary-schools-areas.zip[6]. If > you don't want to generate the data, you can just download it directly > from github. By using the Open Data plug-in you can open it in JOSM. > > Unfortunately, it looks like the schools list database isn't very useful > for mapping all the schools. > > Irish addresses, eh? > > - -- > > Rory > > > [1] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-ie/2016-January/001418.ht > ml > [2] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-ie/2016-January/001424.ht > ml > [3] > https://www.education.ie/en/Publications/Statistics/Data-on-Individual-S > chools/Data-on-Individual-Schools.html > [4] https://github.com/osmie/ie-schools-geocode > [5] > https://github.com/osmie/ie-schools-geocode/blob/master/geocode-single.s > h > [6] > https://github.com/osmie/ie-schools-geocode/blob/master/primary-schools- > areas.zip > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) > > iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJWsmZOAAoJEOrWdmeZivv2N3EH/2qAh9rn4vpDXX5TzeGonMNE > bRYvwQ/4ahwg8+YKtFlLlypusfeBZxl17C3qec/G2avApF/Gi1O+QgF/sks9oIQI > 62IZGcl7xhcbzRBFD08df22qY4OeFlT0lyUELVpo1tfdiPSN0hEWn+H+eIc8I0BH > pmK3qlgoK/jKAbhm/YrfKL4af/UDyPAEccoBDbWkfcjAyJ0PECOXgS4XoTXYZimS > aDC2XUOIMyhEn5BmSznMcViykLdLQng8sMJBndZoXkAUEQE/45Lo+FiuUvrfKUE7 > W8nB1SYDbpevH1OGxBuBM99wP3F6CUVkj/V2jB7SlISI+pvYTNJL7hiWL6a1IQg= > =5Txv > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-ie mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ie > _______________________________________________ Talk-ie mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ie
