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Add school district information to school data #10

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joekarl opened this issue Dec 31, 2014 · 3 comments
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Add school district information to school data #10

joekarl opened this issue Dec 31, 2014 · 3 comments
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joekarl commented Dec 31, 2014

Will just be adding schoolDistrictCode and schoolDistrictId to each school feature in the schools.geojson file.
Will need load up school district info and then do a point in polygon check to see which district the school resides in.

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joekarl commented Jan 6, 2015

So we can't assume that a school belongs in a school district based solely on location (mainly because of home schools, independent schools, etc...) So I guess the real question is, there is no mapping in the data we have from the city that tells us which schools are in a school district.
If we can't generate this mapping (due to the above reasons) do we need to manually create the mapping? (this really isn't that hard but kinda sucks that there's no canonical mapping from the city)

Thoughts? //cc @codeforokc/school-finder-team @codeforokc/owners

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I will inquire about getting this data made available. More open data!

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lrobb-zz commented Jan 8, 2015

As you probably know @joekarl , the school district boundaries change year to year, and it's not uncommon for you to be closer to a school out of your district than to the one you are assigned (someone across the street may be assigned a different school). Especially true for elementary schools. Most of the districts in the OKC area maintain a map of which houses go to which school, so I assume they have this in some sort of database... Likely ESRI!

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