On 10 February 2014 09:47, <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I came across this the other day: > http://www.education.gov.za/EMIS/EMISDownloads/tabid/466/Default.aspx > > 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 _______________________________________________ Talk-ZA mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-za
