On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 11:47 AM, <[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
Hi Grant,
I am wondering if this is the source of Google Map's school positions.
Most of them appear to be fairly accurate, based on my wanderings in the
sticks of KZN and the Transkei. At least, there is usually a school
where Google Maps says there is one. Would simply (hahaha) checking on
the aerial imagery that there is what looks like a school at places that
the data says there is one be enough to constitute fact-checking for the
time-being? They are usually quite visible as schools, in my experience.
If we can find a sane way of uploading them in small batches of 15 or
20 schools, that sort of checking should be doable, if very
time-consuming. But, at the same time, we can feed that back to the DoE.
Will look at what you guys have in the github repo.
Thanks.
mtb
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