Edinburgh school catchment areas for ESPC.com

What?

This bookmarklet adds a small panel to the map view of ESPC.com’s search results, which you can use to display catchment area boundaries and school locations for each category of school.

How?

Drag the link below to your browser’s bookmarks or favourites bar.

Edinburgh Catchment Areas

To use: do a search at ESPC.com, click “Map View”, then click the link you just dragged to your bookmarks bar to load the interface..

There may be bugs. If something doesn't seem to be working, please either tweet at me, submit a new issue on GitHub or email me: espc-bookmarklet <at> maniacyak <dot> co <dot> uk

Why?

Because some people like knowing where their kids will end up going to school before they spend enormous sums on a house.

Acknowledgements

• Alex Turnbull for suggesting the idea.
• The City of Edinburgh Council for publishing their datasets here on GitHub.
• GDAL’s ogr2ogr utility, which I used to convert Edinburgh Council’s Esri shape files into Google Maps-compatible KML files.
• Dr Hannah Fry, whose Python script I used to batch convert Edinburgh Council’s Ordnance Survey (OSGB36) school locations into GPS (WGS84) coordinates.