[OSGeo Africa] Education districts

[Frank Sokolic]

Nice stuff Tim, and a good example of the benefits of having data freely 
available. Give people free access to data and let them get on with it 
as it's impossible to predict the imaginative and beneficial ways that 
people will combine different datasets.

Also a good demo of the Atlas function in QGIS 2 :-)

Frank.

On 12/07/2013 14:35, Tim Sutton 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
> <mailto:tim at linfiniti.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hi Samuel
>
>
>     On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 9:20 AM, SAM YIRENKYI
>     <SAM.YIRENKYI at kzncogta.gov.za <mailto: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
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>
>          >>> Frank Sokolic <sokolic at worldonline.co.za
>         <mailto: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 <http://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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