[OSGeo Africa] Education districts

Fri Jul 12 05:54:55 PDT 2013

Hi

On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 2:48 PM, Adi Eyal <adi at burgercom.co.za> wrote:

> Hi Tim
>
> I get a 404 when downloading your PDF.
>

Ah sorry its still uploading - try again in half an hour and you should be
good to go (the pdf is 104mb which is a bit ridiculous :-P)

> I enjoyed reading your command line wizardry though :)
>

If I wasn't an open source guy trained by ninjas to be unembarrassed about
my code I would be deeply embarrassed since it is just a big hack :-P Glad
its providing entertainment though :-)

Regards

Tim

>
> Adi
>
>
> On 12 July 2013 14:35, Tim Sutton <tim at linfiniti.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> If anyone is interested, I took Franks school district dataset and the
>> LGE2011 dataset from [1]  and made an atlas (using new goodies coming in
>> QGIS 2.0) which shows voter participation by school district. The thesis
>> being it would be interesting to see how voter participation looks in the
>> contect of education districts. You can download the pdf I produced here:
>> [2]
>>
>> I used the Wards dataset from [3] and merged (via a table join) a summary
>> of the electorial data per ward which I prepared using a bash script I
>> wrote (available here [4]). The script is really rough - just a work log of
>> what I did to extract useful info out of it....your mileage may vary....
>>
>> Its so nice to see all these datasets being made public....
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Tim
>>
>> [1]
>> http://www.elections.org.za/content/Dynamic.aspx?id=1822&name=Elections&LeftMenuId=100&BreadCrumbId=464
>> [2]
>> https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1166848/sa-local-elections/voter-turnout-by_edu_district.pdf
>> [3] http://www.demarcation.org.za/Downloads/Boundary/Wards.rar
>> [4]
>> https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1166848/sa-local-elections/ZA-Local-Elections-Analyser.sh
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 10:07 AM, Tim Sutton <tim at linfiniti.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Samuel
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 9:20 AM, SAM YIRENKYI <
>>> SAM.YIRENKYI at kzncogta.gov.za> wrote:
>>>
>>>>  Hi Frank.
>>>> Please send me a copy too.
>>>>
>>>
>>> He has already done so - see updated link below:
>>>
>>> > Dear list members,
>>>
>>> > I've added the education district names to the shapefile I uploaded
>>> earlier as these were missing. You can download the update at the same link:
>>> > http://db.tt/VRMKPnBT
>>>
>>> > Some points to note: The North West department doesn't use the same
>>> naming convention that other provinces do so what we are calling
>>>  > education districts in this shapefile are referred to as regions by
>>> the North West Education Department. We are also using the latest District
>>> > Municipality names for the education district names in the North West.
>>>
>>> > Regards, Frank.
>>>
>>>
>>> Regards
>>>
>>> Tim
>>>
>>>
>>>> Regards
>>>>
>>>> Samuel Yirenkyi | Pr. GISc (SA) PGP 0167
>>>> Deputy Manager: Development Information Services (GIS)
>>>> KZN Dept. of Co-operative Governance and Traditional Affairs
>>>> 271 Church Street
>>>> PIETERMARITZBURG
>>>> 3201
>>>> SOUTH AFRICA
>>>>
>>>> Mobile: +27 83 485 0911
>>>> Tel (work): +27 33 355 6530
>>>> Fax (work): +27 33 355 6173
>>>> Email: sam.yirenkyi at kzncogta.gov.za
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> >>> Frank Sokolic <sokolic at worldonline.co.za> 2013/07/10 10:26 PM >>>
>>>>
>>>> Hi Adi,
>>>>
>>>> We've got a shapefile of all 86 education districts. I'll send them to
>>>> you off-list.
>>>>
>>>> Frank.
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Frank Sokolic
>>>> EduAction - GIS Solutions
>>>> Tel: +27-(0)31-2615922
>>>> Web: eduAction.co.za
>>>>
>>>> On 10/07/2013 18:43, Adi Eyal wrote:
>>>> > Hi
>>>> >
>>>> > Does anyone know where I can find shape files for education districts?
>>>> > Police districts would be useful too.
>>>> >
>>>> > Thanks
>>>> > Adi
>>>> >
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>>>> > Adi Eyal
>>>> > Data Specialist
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