[OSGeo Africa] Education districts

[Adi Eyal]

Hi Tim

I get a 404 when downloading your PDF. I enjoyed reading your command line
wizardry though :)

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
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>>> 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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>>
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>
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Adi Eyal
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